Ubuntu install step 6
Okay. The reboot worked. Marvellous. Monitors working just as I wanted.
The drivers must have been updated from last summer when I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on this same machine but couldn't get three major things to work.
1. Dual monitors
2. Adobe Air
3. Webcam would work on Skype but not on Seesmic.com
So the first one is sorted. Now for the second.
Adobe Air has lots of great little apps and I like the twitter clients more than any other. TweetDeck is my current app of choice after I skinned it to get rid of all that black which did my head in after a while. So I open firefox, search adobe air and download the linux app - easy.
It arrives on my desktop as AdobeAIRInstaller.bin. I double-click it and it spits at me not knowing which app to run the file with. OK. After playing about with the Add/Remove tool and System Packet Manager I revert to google to find the answer. The first link I tried was unhelpful but the Yahoo Answers (2nd link) worked a treat.
I moved the file to my Home folder.
I ran the Terminal (don't be scared).
And typed the following:
daibarnes@ubuntu:~$ chmod 755 AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
daibarnes@ubuntu:~$ sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
[sudo] password for daibarnes:
First I did it without the filename in CAPS and it didn't work.
Then it said I was installing something else but I had just left the Synaptic Package Manager open, so I closed it and repeated the code and it worked. Just started the install running as it does in Windows.
Cool. Again.
