Anyone know how to tame these Linux thingies?

[Bitter Ashes]

My computer has Linuxes. I haven't used one like this before, so I'm a bit stuck. I'm trying to work out how the hell to get a java plugin onto my firefox browser. On windows I'd like click one button and bam it'd be there and done and dusted. All the guides I'm finding for trying to get this plugin onto a Linux riddled computer, are like a page long and has me fiddling around with the directory and stuff and all I really want to do is either type one thing into the terminal or have a wizard take care of everything until I can work out how to make the Linuxes do what I want properly.

Anyone able to help?

[ʇsıɥɔɹɐuɐ ıɯɐbıɹo]

Stope WINE (http://www.winehq.org/)ing... :p joking, go there and get that, then use that to operate MS windows programs like you do normally, and ease yourself into using linux by switching back and forth. :laugh:

EDIT: unless you're an apple user, totally forgot about till now.:confused:

[altnet]

What distro are you using ?

[StoneFrog]

Need to know what package manager you've got, unless your fine with installing from source. plus isn't the java plugin just something for FF, and you can just use the FF plugin installer? I can't remember =/

[Bitter Ashes]

The installer just tells me to download this folder and stick it in the directory with firefox, but it doesnt say which part of the directory and it's all very confusing. Ubuntu software manager is the package manager I think. I tried to download something that said it had a java plugin from a search on there but that didn't seem to help either.
To get the flash plugin all I had to do was type an apt-get install command into the terminal. Why's Java got to be such a nuisance???

[altnet]

Run this command with elevated privileges:


sudo apt-get install icedtea6-plugin

from: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FirefoxPlugins

and yes Java can be a pain in the ass to setup

[kitsune]

For the OpenJDK it's as simple as installing the Ubuntu Restricted Extras package from the Ubuntu Software Center. Or you could open the Software Center and search for Java and install the packages.

I wanted Sun Java, though, and for that you have to add a partner repository before installing. Go to System / Administration / Software Sources and click on the Other Software tab. Check to select the two Canonical Partner repositories. After that Sun Java should be available in the Software Center. Search for Java and click the install button for Sun Java 6.0 Plugin.

[Bitter Ashes]

Says it's unable to locate that package when I type in the apt-get command

Will try this restricted packages thing later