Everything installed fine, but I could get the network to work.

to do a case-insensitive searc for .pm files in /usr and subfolders:
find /usr -iname '*.pm'
To get a terminal type xfce4-terminal in the Alt+F2 box

To find a string of alpha characters between 100 and 200 characters long in finnwake.txt:

grep "[A-Za-z]\{100,200\}" finnwake.txt

To find words between 25 and 30 characters without vowels:

grep -w "[^aeiouy]\{25,30\}" finnwake.txt

to exit a MAN screen, use q

to page down in a MAN screen, use f

to page up in a MAN screen, use b

Apparently there’s an issue running aptitude or synaptic (using Xubuntu Gutsy) on a secured wireless network. It just doesn’t seem to work. I’m sure there’s a fix for it and if I had hours of spare time, I’d find it.

Meanwhile, I took my laptop to a wireless network with a unsecure guest connection and was able to run

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin sun-java6-fonts

(Thanks to ubuntugeek for that one) Then I did the same thing for sun-java6-jdk.

Then I used mousepad to write up a standard helloworld.java example. I went to my terminal and did

sudo javac helloworld.java -d /home

Without the -d I had no idea where the class file was going. Without the sudo I got permission errors.

then I ran

java helloworld

and it worked!