updating from terminal

Steve Flynn anothermindbomb at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 20:07:02 UTC 2012


On 31 October 2012 19:50, Laurie Bell <bell359 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks,that worked fine.
> another line comes up that needs a command,maybe to launch ubuntu?
> sorry about HTML trying to get out of it.

It sounds like you've installed the Server version of Ubuntu - this
doesn't include any desktop and consequently you'll be looking at a
command line until you install a desktop... to put it in windows
terms, you've got DOS but now windows. Before you spend a lot of time
struggling with the command line, you might want to consider
downloading the desktop installation media from
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

You can always use aptitude to pull down gnome, KDE or a number of
other desktops but if you're starting from scratch it might be just as
easy to pull a fresh ISO and install over the top of what you already
have, Either was you'll end up with a Linx distribution with a nice
desktop, so the choice is yours - if you have the bandwidth though,
I'll just download a 12.10 ISO, install and be done with it.

-- 
Steve

When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.




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