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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