download ubuntu8.04 iso

[Mumia W.]

On 08/09/2008 07:01 PM, 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
> 

Doug, I agree with William that your problem, if file-ownership related, 
can be solved much more simply by using "chown." You might fix the 
permissions this way:

$ sudo chown -R $(id -n -u):$(id -n -g) /home/$(id -n -u)