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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 01:07, David Farning<dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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

Yup.

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

On the OLPC images there's no man pages AFAIK, but you can find those
online in places like here:

http://linux.die.net/man/1/su

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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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