download ubuntu8.04 iso

[Doug Pollard]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Bravo :-)
                               Doug