Ubuntu/Kubuntu Install Problems
I got a cd for Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Lately I’ve been using KDE; so I installed Kubuntu on my laptop. I was very pleased with the way it configured everything, but I had a couple of disappointments.
Partitioning
First was the partitioning section. I already had a partition ready. I found that the partitioning section was not easy to follow. Finding exactly where I was supposed to choose the / mountpoint was difficult for me. Maybe I’m used to RedHat and Slackware. I also installed Debian numerous times, but this was not like the Debian I remember. Chalk that up to it just being different and now that I know how it works, it shouldn’t throw me next time.
- Turns out there is a new Debian installer and the partitioner is parted front end. Doug Skranak posted on the mailing list about this and made a nice page about it which we have copied on Debian Installer. The partitioner is really quite nice once you take the time to really read what is written in it.
Long time testing network repository
Then it took a huge amount of time testing the network repository. I don’t know if it went out and got more uptodate software or if it was just running that little program that goes out and finds the best repository. In the past I have found that program more than useless. I forget what it is called. Maybe it was getting new software. It told me nothing except that it was configuring apt and testing the network repository. I really thought it was hung there on 50% – 50% of what, I wondered. Then it moved along to test the security repository and on we went.
- Sam remembered the name of the program that we think is running here–netselect-apt. It can take a long time to run. Later I installed Ubuntu and this portion of the install went quite quickly
- I have installed Ubuntu 5.04 “The Hoary Hedgehog” and everything went quickly. Seems they have fixed it.
— Stefan Waidele jun. 2005/07/24 21:50
Looking for software in Kynaptic/Synaptic
Then I logged in after it did all its configuring of the programs and it was a nice KDE desktop. Sound, mouse, wifi… all working. No Mozilla. I mounted another partition and got my firefox install tar.gz. Went to install it. No gtk. Discovered kynaptic and looked for gtk of any kind. Nothing there. Apparently that is only on the Gnome desktop?? Not at all suitable. Give me back my 2-3 cd set for installing please! This division of things will not work for what I do. I want bluefish–that’s gtk too, I’m sure. But I don’t want to run Gnome. Can someone tell me how I go about getting some more offerings in kynaptic? I’m guessing maybe I can add that Ubuntu cd to the listing, but surely there must be a way to add it from the network. Do they have two different repositories for Kubuntu and Ubuntu? I don’t think I’m really going to use it, but I’d like to put something up on the site about this. Hmmm. I haven’t looked for the manual yet. Maybe that will tell me.
No root!
Oh, yes, in the process of doing this firefox/gtk dance, I discovered that I had no root password. Gee, that’s right, I thought. I was never asked for that. Being pretty smart, I reboot and go into rescue mode which is nice. I run passwd for root. I don’t know what a newbie does. Did I miss where it asked me for a root password?
- Use sudo with user password. Yes, this is my first installation ever where there is no root password, but it might actually be better that way. Sam, again with the answer on this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
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