download ubuntu8.04 iso

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 10 August 2008 19:00, Doug Pollard 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 Doug

I appreciate your situation, as re-installing is pretty much a last resort, 
and shouldn't be necessary.

I recently downloaded updates for my Archlinux install, and KDE 3.5.9 was 
going to be upgraded to KDE4. I suppose it was a bit foolish to let this go 
ahead, as as it turned out KDE4, as far as I'm concerned has given me nothing 
but problems.

For the first time since using Linux, I've deliberately installed Gnome. My 
Fedora installs have Gnome as the default DE, and I always also install KDE 
as well, as I prefer it, but at the moment on Archlinux, Gnome is better than 
KDE4. My reason for installing Gnome, is that I hope to remove all the KDE4 
packages, without losing access to a desktop environment.

I then, if I can find the packages for KDE 3.5.9, will install them, and get 
back KDE 3.5.9, which was working just fine before the Archlinux upgrade to 
KDE4. Then to stop Archlinux upgrading to KDE4 again, and I think there are 
some workarounds here.

The last thing I want to do is reinstall Archlinux, even though it may well be 
the easiest. Since the install there were no updates to KDE 3.5.9, until the 
upgrade to KDE4, and the install is quite new, so there is no data which I'm 
concerned about losing. All the same I'm going to have a good go at reverting 
KDE4 to KDE 3.5.9 before I throw in the towel and re-install.

Nigel.