download ubuntu8.04 iso

[Doug Pollard]

William Witt wrote:
> On Sunday 10 August 2008 10:56:42 Doug Pollard wrote:
>   
>> William Witt wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sunday 10 August 2008 08:38:13 Doug Pollard wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Debian wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 20:01 -0400, 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
>>>>>>             
>>>>> well you cant really download the *.iso file from synaptic..you will
>>>>> need to download it from the ubuntu website or from bittorrent
>>>>>
>>>>> from personal experience, i do not recommend reloading ubuntu straight
>>>>> from the repository..something usually happens where either the servers
>>>>> kick you off or the install breaks or something and it screws up the
>>>>> entire thing. IMHO if you really have to, its best to reload just using
>>>>> the CD
>>>>>
>>>>> --cj
>>>>>           
>>>>     That is a part of my problem.  I can't download anything except in
>>>> synaptic or maybe apt -get.   I had video files  in user's Home  that
>>>> were root files. I captured them using sudo because I needed to burn
>>>> them to dvd.  I then made the mistake of copying them from root.
>>>> That seems to be causing all kinds of problems. My solution was to just
>>>> delete the files in user home and that did not solve the problem most of
>>>> them in Firefox.   I need to get things working as I have video to edit
>>>> and since there are so many problems I was thinking the quickest way to
>>>> get up and running might be to reinstall.  In truth I would much rather
>>>> fix it all in terminal.  I am busy reading the Ubuntu book as I just
>>>> don't have the skill to fix all the problems.
>>>>             Doug
>>>>         
>>> If you truly want to reload the system you can just create a new user to
>>> download and burn the ISO.  However you should be able to fix your system
>>> from the command line.  Basically, you need to reclaim the ownership of
>>> your home directory.  Commands are as follows (be sure to replace all
>>> occurrences of [username] with your user name) :
>>>
>>> cd /home
>>> sudo chown -R [username]:[username] [username]
>>> cd [username]
>>> sudo chown -R [username]:[username] .*
>>>
>>> -Line one changes to the home directory (obviously)
>>> -Line two recursively changes the ownership of your home directory to
>>> your user and group.
>>> -Line four is there because I have had some issues with chown not
>>> modifying hidden files and directories, so this will ensure it's done.
>>>
>>> Be careful with chown using it improperly can mess up a system pretty
>>> badly (in short: know what you chown).
>>>
>>> William
>>>       
>> Ok  put in cd /home  Ok so far,   put in  sudo chown -R  doug:doug
>> doug1    I thought this would change doug to doug1  Got an error
>> message  Is one of these users to be the new user?  I don't understand
>> this. Went to man and read for an hour but did not find and answer there.
>>                                            Thanks Doug
>>                                                     Doug
>>     
>
> Sorry, should have been more clear.  
>
> Option 1) Use chown to change ownership of the files; Usage is:
> chown [options] [user][group] [file to change]
> so:
> sudo chown -R doug:doug /home/doug
> will reset the permissions of all of the files in your home directory so that 
> you are the owner.  This should fix your overall issue that came from running 
> programs as root in your home directory.  
>
> Option 2) add a new user, you should use the ubuntu GUI tool under system-
>   
>> administration->users and groups to add a new user so that you can download 
>>     
> the isos, etc
>
> Will
>
> OK :-)  I followed the above and got a new prompt in the terminal which I guess means it was successful I guess. I set up a second user account and all went well there.It starts and runs well.  I started the original accountand got this message as before when ubuntu starts.:    users $home/dimrc fileis being ignored. This prevents the default sessions and language from being saved.File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. Users Home directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users.
I guess the above is the reason I can't download anything and save it??  
I haven't tried downloading and opening to see If downloading works. I 
also can't save to favorites in Firefox. I guess the same problem.  I 
was thinking there were a lot of problems when in fact the one above 
maybe the main one and all there is??
    This was the same message I was getting before and was hoping the 
above change would fix this.  Maybe if this were straightened out there 
would be no need to reinstall. I kind of hate to reinstall as it 
represents a failure to my way of thinking.  It would be good If this 
could be fixed.
                                        Thanks Dougl