Dapper Installation (Very Confused)

[Anthony Gardner]

I am in no way a linux novice but ubuntu leaves me confused. 

I upgraded from an up-to-date brezzy to dapper and had a thrashing CPU (which no one could help with on this mailing list)

I then tried a fresh install of dapper from CD but couldn't get past 'configure X' on the install start and also found a checksum error in the pkgs.

Finally installed a bare bones breezy (as advised to do from the list) and then upgraded ro dapper.

Everything seemed to be okay but I think it stopped while setting openoffice as all I had on the terminal was (arg: 23) (sth like that)

I typed 'echo $?' to see the return code and it was 0 even though I thought sth had gone wrong.

No system tools appeared in the menu and no openoffice etc.

CPU was running better but still at 7% while idle.

I have now installed kubuntu and even so, some tools seem to be missing.

apt-get -f install says upto date.

Also, on starting linux, I've lost the fancy startup screen that I had after my initial upgrade from breezy to dapper. All I get now is the standard output  ............... [ok]

Is anyone confused by reading this ;) Because any distro worth its salt, shouldn't be so wildly inconsistent.

Where am I in my dapper experience ?

I'm sure they'll be more questions.

-Ants


 		
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