Trouble with some apps

[kenobi112]

Hello everyone,

I am pretty new to Ubuntu. I upgraded to Xubuntu 11.10 last night and am having some problems with some of the applications. I am a bigger fan of Chrome than I am of Firefox so one of the first things that I did was install Chromium. It installed fine and I was actually able to use it for a few minutes. Then I got a notification that there was some security updates to install. I then restarted the system to allow updates to complete. When the system rebooted, I was unable to launch Chrome or the Transmission app no matter how I launched it. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get these to work?

Also, I am unable to view YouTube videos through the Firefox Browser. I have already installed the restricted extras to include Adobe Flash but it is still not working. I really did not have any problem with Ubuntu 11.04. I just really did not like the layout of unity. I would really like to try and get Xubuntu to work.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[tors]

Did you get any error messages indicating what was wrong when you tried to launch the applications?

Tip, if you try to launch them from a terminal there is a bigger chance that you will catch any error messages.

[kenobi112]

Did you get any error messages indicating what was wrong when you tried to launch the applications?

Tip, if you try to launch them from a terminal there is a bigger chance that you will catch any error messages.

The funny thing is that I don't get any errors at all when trying to launch either one. It is like they are clickable icons with no further action. Whenever I get back to the house, I am going to try to launch them from Terminal to see if I get any errors.

Any other ideas?

[tors]

Did you find any error messages?