Dapper Installation (Very Confused)

[Henk Koster]

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:10:38 +0100, Anthony Gardner wrote:

> I am in no way a linux novice but ubuntu leaves me confused. 
> 
> I upgraded from an up-to-date brezzy to dapper and had a thrashing CPU (which 
> no one could help with on this mailing list)
> 
> I then tried a fresh install of dapper from CD but couldn't get past 
> 'configure X' on the install start and also found a checksum error in
> the pkgs.
> 
> Finally installed a bare bones breezy (as advised to do from the list)
> and then upgraded ro dapper.
> 
> Everything seemed to be okay but I think it stopped while setting
> openoffice as all I had on the terminal was (arg: 23) (sth like that)
> 
> I typed 'echo $?' to see the return code and it was 0 even though I
> thought sth had gone wrong.
> 
> No system tools appeared in the menu and no openoffice etc.
> 
> CPU was running better but still at 7% while idle.
> 
> I have now installed kubuntu and even so, some tools seem to be missing.
> 
> apt-get -f install says upto date.
> 
> Also, on starting linux, I've lost the fancy startup screen that I had
> after my initial upgrade from breezy to dapper. All I get now is the
> standard output  ............... [ok]
> 
> Is anyone confused by reading this ;) Because any distro worth its salt,
> shouldn't be so wildly inconsistent.
> 
> Where am I in my dapper experience ?
> 
> I'm sure they'll be more questions.
> 
> -Ants

Clearly, you wanted to let off some steam... but if you also want help
then you should provide more information. You might start by telling us
about your hardware.