[wellylug] UBUNTU 5.10 Dapper. First experiences!

[Daniel Pittman]

Gerald Roehrbein <Gerald.Roehrbein at oraforecast.com> writes:

> I've never seen such a huge fan community of Debian or UBUNTU like
> here.  The SuSE system of my 15 year old daughter was just an old
> one. 8.2 or something like that running a lot of years without any
> problems.
>
> After a lot of discussions about "never change a running system" she
> agreed to install UBUNTU. 

You got the version number wrong in your description, though.  5.10 and
Dapper are different releases. ;)

[...]

> The next step was testing FireFox. Everything fine with that except the
> JRE.
>
> I got it from the plugin installation screen FireFox pointed to. 

[...]

> UBUNTU seems to be very professional. FireFox should offer a better
> JRE installation method! ;-)

Please report that to the Ubuntu BTS so they fix it.  The *right* fix is
to install the JRE package provided by Ubuntu; the methods are
documented here:

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Regards,
        Daniel
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