[IAEP] Keyboard problem? Terminal Problem? ???? Problem

[David Farning]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Caryl Bigenho<cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
> I decided to try to install Flash in an XO running 802 so that I might be
> able to get the Periodic Table of Videos and Live Mocha  to work on an XO.
> I started in terminal mode, and thinking I would be extra safe and remove
> Gnash first,  I followed the instructions (see first example)
>
> That appeared to work fine and went through a lot of steps.  I hit the
> return button several times before it said it was complete.
>
> Then I tried to continue with the installation instructions  (See second
> example).
>
> Every time I typed su- l ( that is "el" not "one") it returned the message:
>
> bash:  su- :  command not found
>
> and returned the prompt:
>
> [olpc at xo-15-01-D ~] $

You need a space between su and the dash-el.  It means SuperUser -login

Try typing man su from a command line for the manual page on the command.

david

> I tried restarting and it happened the same way.  I tried different
> characters (like "one") and the problem persisted.
>
> Any suggestions?  I can reflash to a fresh copy of 802 that still contains
> Gnash if that will help.  I thought maybe leaving Gnash in would cause a
> problem, but it looks like removing it may have caused even more trouble.
>
> Thanks
>
> Caryl
>
> Examples follow:
>
>
> su -l
> yum remove gnash gnash-pluginsu -l
>
> wget
> http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386.rpm
> rpm -i flash-plugin-10.0.15.3-release.i386.rpm
> exit
>
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