download ubuntu8.04 iso

Sun Aug 10 17:47:56 UTC 2008

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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
>

In some cases, doing what it tells you can help.
Go to the command line, run this -
(i.e. - if your user name is 'doug')

chow doug:doug /home/doug/.dimrc && chmod 644 /home/doug/.dimrc

Given the error message, that should give it what it wants.  You will
probably have to restart the session for that to work...

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