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Are there any Linux savvy people on here?
I desperately need help!
I’m not braindead with computers or anything, but it’s my second day with Ubuntu and I’m pretty confused. I can’t get a buddy list to come up for Pidgin and certain flash things don’t work.
Please help me! Send me an e-mail or IM me or something!
Okay, so I’ve found “Package Manager”.
But the stuff that’s installed says it’s not installed, so it won’t let me uninstall it.
However “Adobe Flash Player” IS installed.
Hrmph…
(Better than Windows though, I suppose.)
I’m not familiar with pidgin, but your flash problems are most likely due to the fact that Ubuntu installs an “open” version of flash by default…. It’s standard practice, as most Linux distros do not include any software where a user has to agree to a license term that isn’t compatible with the GPL.
Go to your program manager (under system) and do a search for flash… un-install any flash that happens to be installed, then go to a site with a flash animation and follow the links to install the actual adobe flash player… That should solve a lot of your problems.
If Pidgin is a “messenger client” you might try kopete as an alternative. If it’s a “yahoo messenger” service you are trying to get to, you can also download the “real” yahoo messenger from yahoo’s site. Kopete has support for multiple p2p messenger services. (MSN, yahoo, AOL etc.)
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