User Feedback :: Win user needs Linux help bad

I don't know if this is the right place but I installed DSL on a the HD from an old Laptop and it's running. The boot is quite fast but surfing with the old Firefox within DSL has some problems.

For some reason the plug ins like flash will not install. Firefox pops up a window that it cant find the package to download. When downloading on my windows machine there is no problem.

How do I install and uninstall software on Linux (DSL) and most of all where? In Win there is a window installed software and by selecting U can uninstall. Is there something similar?

Firefox for Linux is a ...tar.gz how do I install this software? I downloaded it and ff told me on my desktop but there is no extra Icon on my desktop (like a exe in windows).

Linux is not windows so you have to do things a little different. I haven't downloaded this plug-in but to install new software to DSL you should use the myDSL applications or you risk having problems running DSL.

Quote (u2musicmike @ July 13 2006,09:16)

Thanks for the tip I will check this out

Quote (morpurgo.nl @ July 13 2006,12:50)

Quote (u2musicmike @ July 13 2006,09:16)

Thanks for the tip I will check this out

MyDSL has a lot of options I don't understand. How to proceed?

If you did a regular harddrive install stay with the .dsl or .tgz extensions in myDSL instead of .uci's. I thought I saw the flash extension and several versions of firefox in the download repository. I haven't used myDSL lately but it seemed easy to use but very different from any windows installers. Nowdays I've been using emelfm to load new software by highlighting my .dsl file and clicking the mydsl button. For uninstalling I don't know a good way unless the program installs into one directory. You can view the contents of a file by right - clicking and a sub menu has view contents. You can also use tar to view .dsl file contents in xterm.

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