If it is not one thing it's another!

Alfred alfred.s at nexicom.net
Tue Aug 5 01:43:05 UTC 2008


Neither. I left 7.10 alone, in it's partition on a 320 Gig Hard drive.
Then on another Primary Partition I did a clean install of 8.04 32 Bit.
I bought the software from a Company making DVD sets of Ubuntu 8.04.
That's when the trouble started! I verified that the install Disk was in
tact,(part of the install menu.) Then installed 8.04 into that other
partition side by side to 7.10. I had two CDROM Drives an LG 52X CDROM,
and an LG DVD Burner. The Repositories for 8.04 would not mount, onto
8.04, so I could not use them. I had to download everything on dial-up.
In Firefox I got an error, when I installed Ebay Companion. It saw
Firefox as being the 64 bit version, when it was the 32 bit version. I
filed a bug on the Bug List, on launchpad, this was looked at by a Mr.
Gideon, from Britain, and he supplied 5 lines of code that made things
work for now. Then others took up the challenge and in the new Firefox
Version 3.1 this problem will be fixed!  Then I started to have other
problems with it. The Nvidia GLX driver for newer cards had no effect,
so the games I liked to play, did not work. Again a Filed a bug on the
bug list, and a few people are looking into it. I filed a bug for the
ADD CD not working, but they did not see it as a bug. I spent much time
looking at it myself, and found that apt-cdrom -d /media/cdrom add did
not work either. Then a few days ago. I took out the LG 52 times CDROM,
got that working, but when I went to ADD/REMOVE, that reported that many
of the Packages on the DVD repository, were corrupted. Then ADD/Remove
stopped working. Synaptic Stopped Working. It crashes on starting. 7.10
works very well, so I use it for just about everything. There were about
350 megs of upgrades to do for 8.04, on Dial-up, this made my Hydro bill
Big!  I could not make use of the DVD's at the time. For some reason on
Dial-up all the repositories could not be verified, as authentic. So I
figured perhaps the 8.04 I got on DVD from this company had been
tampered with. They sent me a new set. In the last days I used them for
add CD, and they had corrupted packages on them. 

If there was some way to use the /var/cashe/apt/archives from 8.04 with
synaptic, then I would not have to download that 350 megs for all those
upgrades, and the things I added, in this install, and I could get
someone with High Speed to download the present day 8.04, onto a CD, and
then use the /var/cashe/apt/archives, all the dependencies would be met.
Don't know how to do this just yet, or if it is possible. That would be
a simple way to fix this. Make a cd of the /var/cashe/apt/archives then
wipe that partition with 8.04 installed in it, then get a new official
8.04, and clean install it, then use the cd of /var/cashe/apt/archives
and Synaptic and re install all the extra stuff and the upgrades to
date. See if that fixes things. If not- then it's 8.04 NO MORE! 

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Mathenge <mathenge at gmail.com>
Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: If it is not one thing it's another!
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:30:22 -0400

I haven't really been following this thread. I had problems with the
upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. I had to do a "clean install." For me, the
upgrade was a real headache.

I don't know if you're upgrading or doing a clean installation.

Andrew.

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> I'm sleep deprived too! Bleary Eyed!
>
> It said that some of the packages were corrupted! The ones read off the
> DVD's. It gets so far along, and then crashes, as it is reading the
> lists of the Packages off the DVD's, when you open either Add/Remove or
> Synaptic. Most likely caused by Drop outs on the CD's or DVD's. I
> notified the company I bought them from, and they sent me another set,
> but these are the ones I used for add a CD, and now Synaptic Crashes,
> and will not open. ADD/REMOVE will not open! Software sources still
> opens. No Idea where the problem is. 7.10 is working nice.
>
> a
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>
> Reply-To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: If it is not one thing it's another!
> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 06:46:53 -0700
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> Alfred wrote:
>> Finally I got add a cd to work in 8.04, but now Add/Remove and Synaptic are no longer working, in 8.04.
>> So I'm going to delete 8.04 from my Computer. I'll just use 7.10.
>>
>> I spent all kinds of time trying to get 8.04 working, too much time. The updates break it, code in Firefox breaks it, Binaries from Nvidia break it.
>> It used to be that you could use a computer to be creative.
>
> pretty frustrated huh?  don't give up yet!  what error do you get from
> synaptic add/remove programs?
>
> - -d
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