Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" RELEASED

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metallithrax

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OK, so i've tried 3 or 4 times, using 2 different CD's. No luck - i get an installer error, then it boots to desktop. When I click install, it goes through all the install bits, then when it reboots it errors again.

I've not had these problems before when installing Ubuntu.

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markwolfe Veteran

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What the heck...

I'm going to take a chance that the server gods will smile upon me and provide me data quickly. I am clicking the "upgrade" button in the update manager now.

For the record, update was successful. Nothing got switched around on me, and I had the nice same Fluxbox login that I am used to, just newer kernel, apps and such. (Y)

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+Frank B. Subscriber²

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Found via Planet Ubuntu:

This is the second time I've seen someone in #ubuntu do this.

When you install sun-java6-jre, it will instruct you to go download something and drop it in /tmp and hit enter (something like that). For some reason I do not understand, some users just hit enter without downloading the file they were supposed to and putting it where they were supposed to. Of course, computers don't like it when users don't follow directions. The result is that apt sits there waiting?and waiting?and waiting. Eventually the user assumes everything is done and shuts down. Or maybe they try to install something else and find the dpkg lock in place and try to forcibly kill it or force shut down. Since Java is half-configured, dpkg ends up in an inconsistent state that lasts across reboots and is a pain to try to sort out.

All because somebody can't follow directions.

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  1. Way to be friendly towards users. 'RTFM!!111'
  2. Can anyone shed some light on why the user has to download a file and drop it into /tmp in order to install the Sun JRE? It's not exactly userfriendly.

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markwolfe Veteran

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Found via Planet Ubuntu:

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  1. Way to be friendly towards users. 'RTFM!!111'
  2. Can anyone shed some light on why the user has to download a file and drop it into /tmp in order to install the Sun JRE? It's not exactly userfriendly.

I am pretty certain that you don't have to do all that. Just use synaptic (or command line apt-get, if you prefer) and install it with a click.

That rant seems to be from a random blogger with regards to installing files from a Sun download.

Yeah, he is gruff, a jerk, whatever you want to call it. There are those types of people all over. And there are certainly friendly people here and on Ubuntu's forums as well.

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+Frank B. Subscriber²

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I am pretty certain that you don't have to do all that. Just use synaptic (or command line apt-get, if you prefer) and install it with a click.

That rant seems to be from a random blogger with regards to installing files from a Sun download.

Yeah, he is gruff, a jerk, whatever you want to call it. There are those types of people all over. And there are certainly friendly people here and on Ubuntu's forums as well.

Random blogger? Not really.

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There's a bug that prevents the keyboard from working on the login screen if you install 10.04 on a VMware Fusion virtual machine (Mac OS X). Seems the only way around it is to use the on-screen keyboard, but oddly enough, once you log in, it works fine. The bug has been noted on Launchpad and I'd assume some hotfix should take care of it.

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Growled Member

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I am pretty certain that you don't have to do all that. Just use synaptic (or command line apt-get, if you prefer) and install it with a click.

Even if you download the file with Synaptic, you have to hit enter to agree with the terms I think.

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.Neo

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There's a bug that prevents the keyboard from working on the login screen if you install 10.04 on a VMware Fusion virtual machine (Mac OS X). Seems the only way around it is to use the on-screen keyboard, but oddly enough, once you log in, it works fine. The bug has been noted on Launchpad and I'd assume some hotfix should take care of it.

Noticed this as well. Also the menu bar panels jump out of place when changing the resolution in VMware Fusion. :/

How does one activate the on-screen keyboard in Ubuntu? Or do you have to use one Mac OS X provides?

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markwolfe Veteran

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Even if you download the file with Synaptic, you have to hit enter to agree with the terms I think.

Click is click. And if you have to agree to terms in Windows, and in Linux, it seems to be a non-issue in my book.

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Quillz

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Noticed this as well. Also the menu bar panels jump out of place when changing the resolution in VMware Fusion. :/

How does one activate the on-screen keyboard in Ubuntu? Or do you have to use one Mac OS X provides?

Another bug... I found you first have to go into Accessibility (it should be an option right under the user name/password prompt) and enable it. But the bug here is it doesn't seem to show up until you restart the VM.

I have no idea why this is the case. Every other Ubuntu version works fine for me on VMware Fusion.

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Acheron_77

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Found via Planet Ubuntu:

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  1. Way to be friendly towards users. 'RTFM!!111'
  2. Can anyone shed some light on why the user has to download a file and drop it into /tmp in order to install the Sun JRE? It's not exactly userfriendly.

For my 20 (or so Pcs) i'm always use this ppa for Java Jre, 

https://launchpad.net/~voronov84/+archive/andreyv

Then in Synaptics look at sun java plugin and that is all.

Good luck

Note: 5 upgrade 0 issues, 15 to go :blush:

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Acheron_77

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I must correct this, i see that ppa pulled java. Now is easy installing Java only activating the partners sources.

For my 20 (or so Pcs) i'm always use this ppa for Java Jre, 

https://launchpad.net/~voronov84/+archive/andreyv

Then in Synaptics look at sun java plugin and that is all.

Good luck

Note: 5 upgrade 0 issues, 15 to go :blush:

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boogerjones

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There's a bug that prevents the keyboard from working on the login screen if you install 10.04 on a VMware Fusion virtual machine (Mac OS X).

It's an issue with the VMWare Easy Install. You can follow the bug here. You can fix it with this:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

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