The fact that Peppermint 5 is due out for release soon doesn’t mean Peppermint 4 will die a sudden death, As Mark pointed out in his earlier post Peppermint 4 will still be fully functional and secure for a long time to come so I wouldn’t let that prevent you charging ahead if that’s what you want to do.
Installing Peppermint is really a very simple operation by comparison to installing Windows so if you installed Peppermint 4 now you have nothing to fear from the prospect of upgrading to Peppermint 5 at a later date if you want to and it would allow you to get to know Linux a little better meantime and understand how it works,
Ultimately the choice is yours, we’ll be happy to help you with whatever you want to do
Persistance means that any changes you make while in the live environment will persist after a reboot so for example if you change any settings or install software they will be saved to the USB just as if it was properly installed whereas if you dont have persistence any changes you make or any software you install will be lost after a reboot,
You dont need to have persistence but it would do no harm, personally I would choose to have persistance but you can’t have any more than 4gb on a fat32 filesystem which is really more than enough
What does enable launching live in Windows mean please? Is this something I need to do?
I’m not sure I can explain this too well but I think It means Linux Live Creator can create a virtual machine to allow you to run the Linux system within Windows, I would say this is something you don’t want to do
Heres a tutorial that can explain it better than I can
I’ve loaded Peppermint onto an old PC alongside XP and although it loaded OK apparently it won’t play BBC iplayer or you tube saying unable to load or find or whatever flash plugin.
I ticked the relevant boxes which appeared during loading Peppermint and have updated some software (don’t know what) as a message appeared on the screen saying updates were available.
Is this Adobe flash player that’s missing and what do I need to do to get it for Peppermint or is there an alternative in the software manager with Peppermint that I can use instead.
With an active internet connection, open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:
sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-installer
then
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
You can copy/paste those commands one at a time into the terminal … and hit enter to run them
Be aware - you’ll be prompted for your password, when you type it in nothing will be echoed to screen (not even ******) just type your password and hit enter.
I’m a bit concerned that I would have had no idea what to do without your help and also why flash plugin is missing as
I thought it was included?
If you remember I said I was going to put Peppermint on a friend’s laptop to replace XP but I’m concerned that she is
going to have issues like this and have no idea what to do about it.
Is this a one-off do you think or will it be a problem if I put it on her laptop as well?
I'm a bit concerned that I would have had no idea what to do without your help
We all need help from time to time I used to think like that “what’s the point in me sticking with this if I’m never gonna be able to do anything for myself” but learning a new operating system is no different from learning anything new it takes time, try to remember back to when you first used a Windows PC yes it can be a little daunting at first but the more you use Linux the more you’ll understand how it works and the more you’ll find you’ll do for yourself, I started using Linux only a few years ago and not only can I use it just a competently as I use a Windows computer but now I’ve learned enough to be able to help others on here (at a very basic level granted) and I’m no brain of Britain
flash plugin is missing as I thought it was included?
I’m not 100% sure about this but I think the reason Flash isn’t installed by default is due to licencing, All Linux distributions are licensed under the GPL which is an opensource licence and cannot contain any proprietery code and as Flash is proprietary it cannot be included but can be installed after installation ie ubuntu restricted extras which I asked you to install in a previous post contains some proprietary code that cannot be included in the default installation
If you remember I said I was going to put Peppermint on a friend's laptop to replace XP but I'm concerned that she is
going to have issues like this and have no idea what to do about it.
You can always ask her to register here and we will be willing to help her any way we can
It just says code not found am I supposed to type in Code: (Select) and then the rest or am I supposed to tell it what the code is then enter the rest on the next line?
Highlight the complete command Mark posted then right click and copy, open the terminal and at the command prompt right click and paste then press enter, you will then be asked for a password enter your password , remember as Mark said you will not see your password as you type it once you’ve put the password in press enter, then once that’s done and the command prompt shows up do the same for the second command
How do you get square brackets?
You would normally see them to the right of the “P” key
I did as you said and it appeared to do what it was supposed to do and eventually said it had loaded flash.
I then I tried BBC iplayer and the same message appeared couldn’t load plug-in! and top left it said could not load shockwave fla…
Re-booted in case but makes no difference.
Incidentally, when I logged on this morning instead of going into Peppermint it scrolled through pages of code or whatever at a fast rate and
then stopped. Took three attempts to get into Peppermint.
Can I try anything else for BBC iplayer do you think?
Mark, Graeme,
doug@doug-System-Name ~ $ sudo apt-get remove --purge flashplugin-installer
[sudo] password for doug:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
flashplugin-installer*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 139 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database … 138319 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing flashplugin-installer …
Purging configuration files for flashplugin-installer …
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common …
doug@doug-System-Name ~ $
doug@doug-System-Name ~ $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Suggested packages:
firefox x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-bitstream-vera
ttf-dejavu ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following NEW packages will be installed
flashplugin-installer
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/6,950 B of archives.
After this operation, 139 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages …
Selecting previously unselected package flashplugin-installer.
(Reading database … 138299 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking flashplugin-installer (from …/flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.335ubuntu0.13.04.1_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common …
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.335.orig.tar.gz
Installing from local file /tmp/tmpp3qycU.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.335ubuntu0.13.04.1) …
doug@doug-System-Name ~ $ uname -a
Linux doug-System-Name 3.8.0-35-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 3 01:25:33 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
doug@doug-System-Name ~ $ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
flashplugin-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
doug@doug-System-Name ~ $
