[ubuntu-uk] comprehensively messed up by updates

[Alan Pope]

2009/3/9 Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com>:
> I gotta tell you, this is worse than I thought. I set the update manager
> to exclude "proprietary device drivers (restricted)" and allowed it to

That wasn't wise.

I'd recommend learning what things are before randomly unclicking them :)

> download and install everything else, and it again totally screwed up
> the machine, knocking out among other things the high-resolution
> display, so I had to re-install the whole of ubuntu from the restore
> disc all over again.
>

You didn't _have_ to, it was completely fixable with just a couple of
commands. Knowing what they are is of course the issue, and I'd
suggest not getting into that situation in the first place.

Cheers,
Al.