Fixing Ubuntu on the Eee Pc
After the initial installation, I found a few more glitches with the default Gutsy install on the Eee PC. I’m sure these are general issues with Ubuntu 7.10 and they were easy enough to sort out.
Fix Flash
Letting Firefox install Flash didn’t work. The installation goes OK but Flash is still broken afterwards. In the end I had to download and install it manually as described here and here.
Fix Totem (aka. Movie Player).
Not sure why, but a one-liner (found here) fixed the Totem movie player. It used to crash trying to play anything before.
Get Rails 2.0
As far as I can tell the Gutsy repositories only go up to Rails 1.8. So the trick to install 2.0 was to do it via gems instead.
May 26th, 2008