download ubuntu8.04 iso

Doug Pollard dougpol1 at verizon.net
Sun Aug 10 18:51:03 UTC 2008


Verde Denim wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Doug Pollard <dougpol1 at verizon.net 
> <mailto: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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    I put in the command using my correct user name  and it accepted it 
and gave me a new  prompt.   I am still getting the same message when 
starting  Ubuntu.  I believe the video I captured is still in my root 
file can that be a problem? At some point I will need to delete it or 
some how move it  to a user file as I don't think I want to be working 
out of root.
                                                    Doug
                                                                     Doug




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