this is easier than you might expect.

fix your sources.list
sudo nano /etc/sources.list
...and add "multiverse" to end of all the lines

update apt
sudo apt-get update

get red5 .deb installer
wget http://www.nielsenaa.com/red5-installers/red5_0.7.0_all.deb

install red5
sudo dpkg -i red5_0.7.0_all.deb

fix any dependency issues
sudo apt-get -f install

check it out @ http://myserver.com:5080 . you should see the red5 page!

stuck with this error?

try this:

This saved me a bunch of time downgrading from 64-bit to 32-bit ubuntu:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261366

OK. So for anyone else having this issue, when Adobe decides to piss on us Linux Flash developers again:
This time it was making my Flex Builder Alpha expire. First it took hours ( and two unhelpful Adobe reps ) to realize that there was a new alpha available for Flex. I thought they were trying to make me buy a license. So I figured, oh, cool, it'll be a cinch to upgrade. But I was incorrect.

Upgrading Flex builder linux to alpha 5, on 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10:

http://radu.cotescu.com/2009/10/30/how-to-install-vmware-server-2-0-x-on...

1) Quick fix for when upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 causes compiling errors in vmware-config.pl

2) For dealing with weird mouse issues:
This thread gave me the idea:

And place in this file :

And then whatever you use to launch the VM, aka:

So I've been doing more Flex / red5 development recently and have been increasingly frustrated by the tendency of Flash 10 to often crash and burn when I try to access my webcam. To my amazement, there's an easy fix - just run firefox with

This one had annoyed me for quite some time, very happy to finally have found a fix:

Every time Gmail refreshed, it would reload all the star icons one by one, and would freeze up that tab until all the visible star icons were reloaded. This would make me wait for all the stars to load before I could go back to work on another tab...BOOO.

Here's the fix:

1) In the location bar, go to about:config
2) Search for browser.cache.memory.enable
3) Change it to "true"

Running a dual-boot with Vista and Ubuntu...

Vista froze on me and I had to reboot. After booting back into Ubuntu I had no sound except a crackling.

But it didnt seem to be a hardware thing because booting back into Vista, audio worked fine.

Turns out this thread had the answer.

Somehow my PCM mixer got muted...all that was needed was to bring it back up with alsamixer -Dhw

same issue as
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=797789
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=163716

official bug is at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88746
and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/264789?comments=all

tried this first:

then tried (as root)

neither worked. hrmph. next up did