updating from terminal

[Laurie Bell]

*Hi Steve I get the desktop if I restart,and boot from ubuntu advance.It
doesn't run properly from this.*
*It just won't boot from turning on computer.
*
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
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Laurie Bell,
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