Packages automatically uninstalling?

[Victor Mendonça]

Hey Bob,

For the second question, I think gparted was not added by default since
8.04 (or 7.10). It's in the live CD, but not present after installed. 

However someone might correct me on that!

 
Victor Mendonça
IT Worker - Linux enthusiast
http://wazem.org/


----- Original Message ----
From: Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 12:56:51 AM
Subject: Packages automatically uninstalling?

Hi all:  I've just put Ubuntu 8.10 on a new (to me) computer, and had a bit of problem 
with GRUB. Using GPARTED I managed to set the correct bootable partition (sda1, to be 
mounted as /boot, with sda2 as /), then running off the live CD I managed to get GRUB on 
the bootable partition.  

It took many attempts to get GRUB to actually load Ubuntu.  I found I had to perform the 
GRUB incantations manually:

  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=/dev/sda2
  initrd /initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic
  boot

This properly loaded Ubuntu, loaded X, and everything was good.  Wouldn't work 
automatically, even with a proper menu.lst file.

I finally ran Synaptic, and found that GRUB had not been installed.  Q: Why not?

Once GRUB was installed I copied the STAGE files  &c. to /boot/grub, and ran the 'install-
grub' script.  Everything now works (but no splashimage).

The computer has only 512 MBytes memory, so I gave it a 1 GByte swap partition.  It has a 
snappy ATI graphics card, so I'm running Compiz/Fusion and I've spent most of the day 
spinning the cube.  What fun!  

With four applications on four sides of the cube it's awfully slow to switch between 
applications.  I thought it might need a larger swap partition and tried to find GPARTED 
in the menus.  Not there.  

Looking at Synaptic again, I find GPARTED is no longer installed.  Q: Why not?  Is it not 
installed by default?  Was I running it off the live CD without realizing it?

--Bob.
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