My thoughts on Adobe Flex, AIR, Flash, Actionscript, & PureMVC.
At first I couldn’t find any obvious way of making this work so I thought it was going to be another frustrating process. After a bit of research I stumbled upon this post on how easy it is to share an existing (non-WiFi) internet connection through WiFi. It was written for the Intrepid Ibex release but still works. The only thing you don’t need to do anymore is install the dnsmasq-base package since it’s already activated by default in Karmic Koala.
Let me begin by saying that I’m not a Linux expert. I’ve worked with it several times before but never really stuck with it. But now I’m trying once more, to completely switch from Windows to Linux especially now with the latest Ubuntu release which looks very promising.
One of the least expected problems I encountered with Karmic Koala is installing Flash Player 10 plugin in Firefox. I was surprised to find out how frustrating and unstraightforward it was to perform this.
I tried several approaches like downloading the Flash Player .deb package (which I think was especially made for Ubuntu) and running it but it resulted in an error notification about certain dependencies that I still need to install, using the apt-get command to automate installation of packages which also resulted in cryptic messages about missing dependencies and name collisions, downloading an RPM and using the YUM package which also failed. All in all it took me almost an hour of research, trial and error to discover the very simple solution that worked, and here it is in 5 easy steps.
.tar.gz from the package drop down selection box, nevermind the other options.tar -zxvf command in the terminal. A single file, named libflashplayer.so will be extracted./usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder. You can’t just drag and drop it to this folder due to lack of permission, you need to perform it with super user privileges.libflashplayer.so is located then move the file using the sudo mv libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ command.about:plugins in the URL bar, you should be able to find Shockwave Flash in the list.
