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writing on screen to small

Asked by stephen grainger

1 Writing on screen to small
2 how do i download adobe flash player when i try to install it sends me to ubuntu software centre then choose an application i want to watch bbc i player
I am a new user of linux and need simple instructions please

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Best arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

1) Ctrl and + will make the writing bigger. Ctrl and - will make the writing smaller.

2) Two alternatives.
a) In a Terminal issue the command: sudo apt-get install adobe-flashplugin
b) Install ubuntu-restricted-extras. That will load a bunch of useful stuff e.g.Adobe Flash Player, Java Runtime Environment (JRE) (sun-java-jre) with Firefox plug-ins (icedtea), a set of Microsoft Fonts (msttcorefonts), multimedia codecs (w32codecs or w64codecs), mp3-compatible encoding (lame), FFMpeg, extra Gstreamer codecs, the package for DVD decoding (libdvdread4, but see here for info on libdvdcss2), the unrar archiver, odbc, and cabextract. It also installs multiple "stripped" codecs and avutils (libavcodec-unstripped-52 and libavutil-unstripped-49). In a Terminal issue the command: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

A good source of general information is at: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Precise#Introduction

Tip: You do not need to type commands into the Terminal. Highlight the command written on the web page. Move your cursor anywhere in the Terminal and press your mouse wheel or mouse middle button. Automatic Copy and paste! No spelling mistakes! No Typos! No other errors!

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stephen grainger (stephen-grainger) said : 		#2

Thanks arochester, that solved my question.