Re: download ubuntu8.04 iso

On Sunday 10 August 2008 19:00, Doug Pollard wrote:
William Witt wrote:
On Sunday 10 August 2008 10:56:42 Doug Pollard wrote:
William Witt wrote:
On Sunday 10 August 2008 08:38:13 Doug Pollard wrote:
Debian wrote:
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:01 -0400, Doug Pollard wrote:
Got a mess here, have a lot of problems and getting worse. Was
trying to use kino to capture video and could not capture. Used
sudo to dv capture files in my user home folder. Bad move that!
Am getting error messages and having problems with with Firefox and
cannot down load to desktop or other files. I have so many problems
I feel it best to download Ubuntu 8.04.1 iso in synaptic and
reinstall. Have all my data saved on external hard drive. The
question is how or can I down load iso file on synaptic.??

Thanks, Doug

well you cant really download the *.iso file from synaptic..you will
need to download it from the ubuntu website or from bittorrent

from personal experience, i do not recommend reloading ubuntu
straight from the repository..something usually happens where either
the servers kick you off or the install breaks or something and it
screws up the entire thing. IMHO if you really have to, its best to
reload just using the CD

--cj

That is a part of my problem. I can't download anything except in
synaptic or maybe apt -get. I had video files in user's Home that
were root files. I captured them using sudo because I needed to burn
them to dvd. I then made the mistake of copying them from root.
That seems to be causing all kinds of problems. My solution was to
just delete the files in user home and that did not solve the problem
most of them in Firefox. I need to get things working as I have
video to edit and since there are so many problems I was thinking the
quickest way to get up and running might be to reinstall. In truth I
would much rather fix it all in terminal. I am busy reading the
Ubuntu book as I just don't have the skill to fix all the problems.
Doug

If you truly want to reload the system you can just create a new user
to download and burn the ISO. However you should be able to fix your
system from the command line. Basically, you need to reclaim the
ownership of your home directory. Commands are as follows (be sure to
replace all occurrences of [username] with your user name) :

cd /home
sudo chown -R [username]:[username] [username]
cd [username]
sudo chown -R [username]:[username] .*

-Line one changes to the home directory (obviously)
-Line two recursively changes the ownership of your home directory to
your user and group.
-Line four is there because I have had some issues with chown not
modifying hidden files and directories, so this will ensure it's done.

Be careful with chown using it improperly can mess up a system pretty
badly (in short: know what you chown).

William

Ok put in cd /home Ok so far, put in sudo chown -R doug:doug
doug1 I thought this would change doug to doug1 Got an error
message Is one of these users to be the new user? I don't understand
this. Went to man and read for an hour but did not find and answer
there. Thanks Doug
Doug

Sorry, should have been more clear.

Option 1) Use chown to change ownership of the files; Usage is:
chown [options] [user][group] [file to change]
so:
sudo chown -R doug:doug /home/doug
will reset the permissions of all of the files in your home directory so
that you are the owner. This should fix your overall issue that came
from running programs as root in your home directory.

Option 2) add a new user, you should use the ubuntu GUI tool under
system-

administration->users and groups to add a new user so that you can
download

the isos, etc

Will

OK :-) I followed the above and got a new prompt in the terminal which I
guess means it was successful I guess. I set up a second user account and
all went well there.It starts and runs well. I started the original
accountand got this message as before when ubuntu starts.: users
$home/dimrc fileis being ignored. This prevents the default sessions and
language from being saved.File should be owned by user and have 644
permissions. Users Home directory must be owned by user and not writable
by other users.

I guess the above is the reason I can't download anything and save it??
I haven't tried downloading and opening to see If downloading works. I
also can't save to favorites in Firefox. I guess the same problem. I
was thinking there were a lot of problems when in fact the one above
maybe the main one and all there is??
This was the same message I was getting before and was hoping the
above change would fix this. Maybe if this were straightened out there
would be no need to reinstall. I kind of hate to reinstall as it
represents a failure to my way of thinking. It would be good If this
could be fixed.
Thanks Doug

I appreciate your situation, as re-installing is pretty much a last resort,
and shouldn't be necessary.

I recently downloaded updates for my Archlinux install, and KDE 3.5.9 was
going to be upgraded to KDE4. I suppose it was a bit foolish to let this go
ahead, as as it turned out KDE4, as far as I'm concerned has given me nothing
but problems.

For the first time since using Linux, I've deliberately installed Gnome. My
Fedora installs have Gnome as the default DE, and I always also install KDE
as well, as I prefer it, but at the moment on Archlinux, Gnome is better than
KDE4. My reason for installing Gnome, is that I hope to remove all the KDE4
packages, without losing access to a desktop environment.

I then, if I can find the packages for KDE 3.5.9, will install them, and get
back KDE 3.5.9, which was working just fine before the Archlinux upgrade to
KDE4. Then to stop Archlinux upgrading to KDE4 again, and I think there are
some workarounds here.

The last thing I want to do is reinstall Archlinux, even though it may well be
the easiest. Since the install there were no updates to KDE 3.5.9, until the
upgrade to KDE4, and the install is quite new, so there is no data which I'm
concerned about losing. All the same I'm going to have a good go at reverting
KDE4 to KDE 3.5.9 before I throw in the towel and re-install.

Nigel.

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