Problem installing 19.10

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:53, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> The one problem that I had, in the procedures, was in the cases of the
> upgrades, where, when the process gets to the screen where it says x
> number of packages will be installed, x number of packages are no
> longer supported, and x number of packages will be removed, to view
> the packages that are to be removed, the dialogue box expands, so that
> the bottom, where the buttons to proceed or quit, are visible,
> disappears off the bottom of the screen, never to be seen again, even
> after the area where the packages are listed, is minimised, so, the
> upgrade procedure has to be killed and restarted.

On the standard Ubuntu system if you hold down the windows key and
left mouse button you can drag a window without needing access to the
title bar.  Thus it should be possible to move the window up to get to
the disappearing buttons.

> ...
> On one computer, in trying to get some useful applications installed,
> the Software Buttocks would install two or three programs out of the
> selection queued for installation, then shut the computer down. After
> this happened a few times, I managed to get synaptic installed, and
> that installed all the packages that I sought, without any problems.

I have had no such problems using apt.

Colin