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After the article 10 flaws with Ubuntu 7.10 which generated mixed feelings among the reader it is time to release a follow up on how to fix them. To be honest I don’t know why so many people become so hostile and rude, might be the fact that they don’t share the same opinion as I do. An opinion that you should contribute and give feedback so things get better.

With that said I also think having the title saying flaws, was maybe a mistake as it was more about feedback, maybe 10 things I would want to see improved in Ubuntu 7.10 would have been better?

Installing Sun’s Jre

This is very straight forward, all we have to do is grab the packages from ubuntu’s repositories. But before you can do that you have to add the multiverse repository.

If you do not know how this is done, Ubuntu has a good guide that shows you how this is done: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

The packages available for java are:

• sun-java6-bin - The binaries
• sun-java6-jre - The metapackage for the JRE
• sun-java6-jdk - The metapackage for the JDK
• sun-java6-demo - Demos and examples
• sun-java6-doc - The documentation
• sun-java6-fonts - Lucida TrueType fonts from the JRE
• sun-java6-plugin - Has the plug-in for Mozilla-based browsers
• sun-java6-source - Source files for the JDK

I’ll be installing the following packages:
sun-java6-jre, sun-java6-plugin, sun-java6-fonts and sun-java6-jdk

Just type this in the command line:

The font issue

Linux Planet has released an article series on how you can get consistent fonts throughout your system. Good articles, if you too feel that the font issue is a pure pain then I strongly recommend you to read these articles.

• Font Management in Linux, part 1
• Font Management in Linux, part 2

Getting the Wacom tables to Work

I won’t rewrite information that is already available on the net. Instead I’ll give you a link to the article I used to get my Wacom table to work as it should.

The article: http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/

The other issues

Ubuntu unofficial guide, Ubuntu wiki guide etc, etc.
That’s a very good resource for everyone who has questions about how to install certain things or how to get some issues worked out. If you are new to linux and ubuntu then I strongly recommend that you bookmark this wiki. As it most likely will give you the answers you want and you won’t have to spend x amount of time searching and trying to find the answers.

Ubuntu Gutsy guide

This is for Ununtu 7.10 and it hasn’t become as huge as the wikis for the earlier versions, so you might check with the how-to for an earlier version as well in some cases.

Thumbnails in Firefox file manager

To this I do not have an answer to, we’ll have to wait for firefox to implement this.
However if anyone reading this know a method to get the thumbnails, feel free to share with us.

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