Redoing it all again...

[Alfred]

There is a problem with Synaptic looking at and adding CD's or DVD's it
seems. I had this problem too.

Another one I had was that Firefox that ships with Ubuntu 8.04 is 64
Bit, not 32 bit. I encountered an error, putting in the Ebay Tools, that
says that Ubuntu's Firefox is the 64 bit version, and you need to
uninstall it and then install the 32 bit version. But then it is a Beta
version 3 and it could be just an error in the Beta, it's hard to tell!

Using Gdebi it is difficult to install the whole /var/cashe/apt/media
folder or from a CD or DVD. In 7.10 things worked OK, in 6.06 it worked
perfect. 

Perhaps a previous version of Synaptic might work, I don't know. Firefox
that shipped with Ubuntu 8.04 is a Beta, and My computer is looking like
it's Windows XP, with all kinds of Flashing Red Error messages all over
the screen! Way back in time when Beta's were an option, things worked
very well when the software was all Stable in a version upgrade! 

Alfred!
-----Original Message-----
From: geo <yaktur at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: yaktur at yahoo.com, The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
<ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Redoing it all again...
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:05:30 -0700 (PDT)
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Blah.......the upgrade to 8.04 on CD (I have the CD) failed. The new
system kept crashing, half of the things in the pulldown menu were not
working. Something is badly buggered maybe on the CD?

So I went back to 7.10, clean install. And now I have to set everything
back up again.

I got this far now:

http://georutkay.homelinux.org/test.php

I'm having difficulty with Joomla however. I'm trying to download the
installer once again and I'll try to reinstall it. Hopefully I won't
have any issues with it like before?

Also.....I have a Samba share to set up and I did this once before
successfully.....now I can't remember how.....

At some point Samba is supposed to need a special password from me
"sambapasword" or something like that, in order to allow my
step-daughter to login to her directory she connects to (her laptop's
hard drive fills up quickly so she needs the backup space).

I have samba and smbfs installed. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
geo