While installing packages, I looked at the output in the terminal and, worried by some lines of text, highlighted them with the mouse and wanted to copy and paste them in the text editor. So I pressed Ctrl-C and the process terminated. I re-installed the packages.
Got this off Linux and Open Source Blog:
The Automatix! Directly from the forum post:
This is a graphical interface for installation of a lot of apps on Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu BREEZY (DOES NOT WORK ON Warty, Hoary or Dapper) and for tweaking a few things to get your Ubuntu box up and working in full throttle in the quickest possible timespan.
Does cool stuff such as:
installing codecs, useful packages, useful scripts for nautilus, extensions for firefox, MS true-type fonts, configures numlock/ctrl-alt-del…
Now check it out here.
Just found out this HOWTO:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html
Must be very convenient for programming in the wee hours of the morning.
So I was lucky to receive a copy of Ubuntu 5.10 installation CD and live CD (thanks to these guys! =) ). I’ve been curious about trying out Linux already, but the main things keeping me back were:
The live CD was a real help in assuring me that everything would run smoothly in Linux. Something funny happened, though: While running the live CD, I tried to install some packages. I guess I shouldn’t have done that. The whole process hanged while the packages were being installed (they were downloaded successfully). Wonder where Ubuntu was trying to install them into. I was hoping it would resolve itself until my CD drive gave up and stopped spinning–then there was nothing left to do except switch off the power. But everything was fine when I started the laptop up again. Heh.
But it was fun to try out the live CD and check out how Ubuntu looks like on the screen and how well it detects one’s hardware.
Now the only issue left was about partitioning… I found this wiki article helpful:WindowsDualBootHowTo. There is also a series of screenshots of the Ubuntu installation process here (it’s Ubuntu 5.04 though, but they’re pretty similar) .
A guide to installing Ubuntu dual-booting with Windows (with screenshots!): http://www.hezardastan.org/breezy_xp_dualboot/en/
Some other reading material that might help:
Well. After installing Ubuntu on my laptop and playing around with it for awhile I thought it would be a good idea to post my experiences online. Partly for the fun of it, but I do hope this information will be useful and helpful (especially for fellow noobs, heh).
After creating this wordpress blog (okay, after signing up and activating–more like recreation than creation) I look at the list of fastest-growing wordpress.com blogs, and what do I see? Ubuntu - The Newbie’s Blog! Looks cool.
Anyway, it just goes to show that Ubuntu is a very noob-friendly distribution.
Augh. Sorry for the naked-blog look; I’ll try to make things look nicer soon. (Did I mention I am a noob at WP too?)
