Redoing it all again...

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
> Hi Daniel:
>
> I bought all the repositories on DVD's because we have very slow
> Download here, great for E-mail. Trouble is that "Add CD in Synaptic
> does not work any more" (it did in 6.06 and 7.04 and 7.10, but in 8.04
> it don't work at all), and even though the Desktop mounts the CD or DVD,
> Synaptic does not see it at all. It produces an error. I got all new DVD
> Burners and CDROMS and put them in my machine, and cutting works now,
> but adding CD or DVD's in Synaptic does not work! So I'm spending about
> all of my time doing up grades 2 days ago there was 50 megs and a few
> weeks before that 350 megs in 8.04, I'm running 3 different Ubuntu
> Versions, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy, that's about 1.2 gigs
> of Upgrades.) and today another 12 items. Nice if you have high speed,
> but we don't. I raised this issue on the forum, but nothing.

The best place to raise these problem is probably to fill a bug in
Launchpad.  Your problem may be this one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/190117


> I did do the upgrade in 8.04 to Firefox three last week, but that is
> when that problem appeared. The first error message says that Firefox is
> the 64 bit version, and needs to be replaced by the 32 bit version, the
> second error message says that one item is missing, and then got 5 lines
> of code to paste into the terminal, to correct the problem, but then the
> error message repeats next time firefox is being made use of. So
> Flashing Error Messages! So from my view point it's still got bugs! I
> don't know if Firefox is indeed the 64 bit version or if it is just an
> error, from Firefox, that still has errors in it.

Personally I use the Firefox 3 downloaded from mozilla.org and I have
never seen that problem.  But my laptop is only 32-bit.


> *****Is it possible to use a stable version of Synaptic instead of the
> one in 8.04, because, these days My computer is on 24/7 trying to catch
> up to all the upgrades, on dial-up. When if I use the DVD's and Add CD
> in Synaptic, I could use them, and be done in a few minutes like I used
> to do in 6.06?

I have never tried to run an older version of synaptic in 8.04;
actually I have never installed it: always used whatever came with
Ubuntu or Debian. I don't even know if you can go and download a
stand-alone synaptic package from upstream.


> ****Is it possible to get AGP things fixed in 8.04 so that things work
> again? I know I have to reconfigure X in order to do this, but I'm not
> real sure just what to change, because the error message gives no clue
> about that. This brings into focus bad memories doesn't it. :) It's too
> vague.

Not sure if it is possible to AGP fixed.  But if it's a bug, unless
you report it in Launchpad, it may never be fixed.

> There are lots of Beta versions and others, and then the Stable edition
> comes out, could that not have all stable software in it, and no Beta
> Software, because then People will shout with Joy "IT WORKS!!". I
> remember a long time ago, I had a computer and I turned it on, and it
> worked, after a few seconds of boot up. Now it's spending all kinds of
> time hardening it against the Internet, fixing all the problems, with
> software, and hardly having any time to use the computer to be creative
> with it.

I also remember the days computers turned on within seconds; but that
was when I was running dos; that OS was missing a lot of goodies we
are now using all the time in any modern OS.

> I worked on a Windows XP machine a few days ago, and it was refusing to
> install a driver because it was not Digitally Signed. I'm seeing similar
> things in Linux now too. The error message we get is "It cannot be
> Authenticated", even when it is downloaded from Ubuntu Repositories.

It's an error or a warning?  I don't think a missing gpg certificate
ever prevented me from installing something in Linux; it would warn
me, but will let me install nevertheless.



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