Today I was bestowed a task by Roger to setup a computer running Ubuntu for the Info Systems classed to be assessed on. All the computer needed was Ubuntu, a few apps and a DVD drive, so Roger gave me a computer that had a CD drive and a DVD drive to put into it. Jack offered to chuck in the DVD drive because he was going back to music to finish up his recording stuff. I got Ubuntu off Roger and attempted to install it.. the PC wouldn't give me a picture and made a series of horrible beeping noises. So I opened it up, took a punt and removed a stick of RAM, that didn't work. Put the one I removed back and took the other one out, this worked. So now I had picture and managed to boot into the Ubuntu installation screen. Now the problem was Ubuntu ran so bad it was mournful. I figured it could have been the DVD drive Jack had put it or the Ubuntu disc itself, so I went to get another optical drive just for the installation when I realised Jack had put in another CD drive, it was simply in a DVD box. So, now I had to get a new optical drive and figure out why Ubuntu was running so poorly. I tried a few different drives and just figured that the computer Roger gave me was a complete pile of shit because the disc worked fine on the HP's in the IT lab.
Roger got me another computer, a Dell that was worthy of my presence and I began to work again.. this Dell wouldn't boot either, no picture and another series of strange beeps. One stick of RAM out and it worked. I then finally could install Ubuntu. Got that installed then Dirk came along and we had an epic conversation about sudo, debian packages, package managers, Dia, GIMP, Blender, MySQL and a few Linux orientated topics.
Now to install said packages.. should have been easy enough but the package manager wouldn't work. It was more than likely being blocked by the proxy and security shit the school has in place so we don't haxx0r the shit out of their network and download bad things such as themes for Opera. I Tried to install it through sudo and the command line, this was more than likely blocked as well, as it failed. Then I downloaded the debian packages and they gave me a "dependency could not be satisfied" error. Ubuntu's dependency is insatiable... I looked around on a few forums and most people suggested using sudo to install the programs. So I spoke to Dirk and we came to the conclusion for me to take it down to computer services and use the connection down there that they use to update machines.
I will finish this off during help desk tomorrow.
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I took the comp' down to computer services and kept getting the same errors. I then realised I would have to set proxy settings for the package manger so I did that and it all worked fine from there on in. I got all the programs Dirk wanted installed. It was a good project, I've worked with Ubuntu before and I enjoy it. I learnt a few new things as well which was good.
