Ubuntu Hacks -- Flash, Java, e17

This must be about the 1 millionth time someone’s written a blog post about this, because I waded through a ton of them to get ones that worked. Which means someday, someone will be wading through 10 million websites trying to get their Flash, Java, and e17 working.

For the browser issues, I found this thread on the Ubuntu forums. In short, you download the first file listed(the Browser Install Script), untar it, and run it. It will download and install the 32-bit libraries, 32-bit browser, and plugins from the set of {Flash, Java, VLC}. The only trick then is rewriting your scripts to use firefox32 instead of just firefox.

To get e17 used to be a big pain. Even in Gentoo, you used to have to go to a lot of trouble to get e17 installed(I can’t verify this at the moment, gentoo-wiki and gentoo-portage seem to be down). But it was really simple following these instructions: HOWTO: installation of e17 from SVN code

I’ll post some screenshots or something later. It’s pretty sweet looking. e17 has come a really long way.