Drivers / installing softwares / newbie !

**Sobirvs** · April 18th, 2012

hey Hi pros.

i am just new to linux , a friend suggested me to install ubuntu 10.04 LTS and i did by seeing some tut in google.

now everything is right , i can use ubuntu.

now i have a laptop Lenevo z570 and when i try to connec. to wireless it seems its disabled , i mean my sliding button(hardware) is ON , but stil wireless is disabled. idk , may be we need to install drivers n all , but hell i dont even know where to get em from and how to install , so anyone please guide me ?

another problem is , i needed to install google chrome / VLC
now i did got a .deb file of google chrome from google itself and was so easy to install but when i tried to get VLC , i didnt got any deb file , instead i got like some .tar file , ok now i do know that it is kinda rar file so i did extracted it , but still where is the installer now ? i dont know

also , just to inform , i am dual booting ubuntu/win7 .

i dont know how to execute commands from terminal .
any info will be gladly given , please help

and in return

for you guys

**ronaldbrijo** · April 18th, 2012

Not a pro here, but lets see.

Regarding the wireless network i cannot assist, im not that clued up.

Go to the Ubuntu software centre or synaptics package manager, search for vlc player, and install it directly from there.

**Sobirvs** · April 18th, 2012

i cant install from software center because my college have blocked the downloading things, thats why i downloaded it from phone(from win 7 internet.) but now that i am in ubuntu i cant connect any phone / wifi and **** , soo.... i would be wanting wifi drivers. i guess.

**codemaniac** · April 18th, 2012

Ubuntu comes with all the drivers bundled within it , rerely you need to compile them manually .Still if 10.04 does not include Lenevo z570 wireless drivers , you can consider upgrading to newer versions of Ubuntu , ie 11.10.
The missing drivers might have been included in the newer ubuntu versions .

**codemaniac** · April 18th, 2012

For securities sake institutions often block ssh and ftp ports so that the resources are not misused by people in the wild .
If you cannot download packages online via software center , you might take a look at offline package installation in Ubuntu .
http://www.tuxgarage.com/2011/07/off...-synaptic.html
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware

**Sobirvs** · April 18th, 2012

ahh a friend told me the same , to install new ubuntu version , k i will look into this , and about VLC installation , can anyone help me to install VLC ?

**HiImTye** · April 18th, 2012

includes instructions for installing from the repos and installing from PPA
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html

**codemaniac** · April 18th, 2012

Hello Sobirvs ,
You need to download all the .deb s from a machine which has a working internet connection .Copy them to the machine in which uou dont have internet access .Install the packages using dpkg .You can download vlc and uts dependent packages from the below link .

http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/vlc

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