Install Flas Player For Ubuntu Linux

Type the following command to install flash player:

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

Now flash player should be working. Visit youtube or any other site to view flash content.

Troubleshooting tip

Update: This issue only relevant to older Ubuntu Linux version such as 6.04.

Some people may find voice is not working with newly installed flash player. Type following commands to solve this problem (thanks to macewan.org):
$ sudo apt-get install alsa-oss
$ gksudo gedit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc

Find line that read as FIREFOX_DSP and set to:
FIREFOX_DSP="aoss"

Save and close the file.

Close Firefox and restart it again.

Install VMware Server 2.0 on Ubuntu 8.10

1. Download VMware Server 2.0

Registe on VMware web site to get an account. When you download you would see a serial nomber.

What I download was TARimage (not for 64 bit version). you should get what you need according your machine.

VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.i386.tar.gz

2. Install nessesary dependence:

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential xinetd
sudo apt-get install xinetd

3. Unzip tar ball

tar zxvf VMware-server-2.0.0-122956.i386.tar.gz

you will get a folder:

vmware-server-distrib

4.

cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

之后

cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

下面一路回车就可以了。只是要注意一点:

The current administrative user for VMware Server is ”. Would you like to
specify a different administrator? [no]

如果你选择默认的no，在登录vmware终端的时候要用root。这不是个大问题，但是如果你想用你自己的用户登录（登录Ubuntu的用户），你必须输入yes然后回车，然后就会让你i输入你自己的用户。

4.如果你上步选择了默认的no，就会以root登录，你要为root设个密码:

sudo passwd root

5. 打开Firefox（我试过Opera也可以），在地址栏输入 http://localhost:8222。会弹出登录框。

6.输入你的用户名和密码，如果第三步选择no，在这里就要用root登录。

OK，现在可以建立你自己的虚拟机了。