I've been booting my PC using the ubuntu LiveCD for the last couple of days. I'll spare you the pain of why, suffice to say I am experiencing a fallout from a Windows problem.
My experience with ubuntu during this trying time is that it did what I wanted to do. I used it check my webmail, and access the Web using Firefox. I was able to access my NTFS files (albeit read-only, but this is a more Linux issue rather than ubuntu-specific).
One problem was that I could not install the Flash plugin for the Firefox browser (1.02). The most obvious (easiest) way did not work: Clicking on the download plugin link on the web site which has flash movies on it.
Then, I started a rather long journey of finding out how. Along the way, I found 2 useful references for general information about ubuntu:
It looked to me that I needed to install some flashplugin-nonfree directly from some ubuntu universe repositary. To do that, I need to first add that repositary to the package manager. This I could not do after some effort of following instructions given in the above links.
At this time, I gave up, and decided to fix my original problem that led me to use the livecd.
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