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How come ubuntu 9.10 got so many thing missing

Asked by chiao woei

Hi
First of all, i would like to say many thanks for such a wonderful OS. B4 my old harddisk got bad sectors, i m very please with my installed 9.04, everything work so fine but after getting a new harddisk and finish installing ubuntu 9.10, many things are no longer standard or missing, firstly the ubuntu software center do not show any install button at all but i managed to get it done based on the already answer complain and the next one was the adobe flash player, i do not recalled needing to search for ubuntu restricted extra and to installed it for youtube video to work and the current one i encountered is when i try to download wine, it's no in the software center.

I fear this will force away many ppls that after hearing how easy ubuntu is may now think otherwise.

yeah, one other thing i also did try to install lucid prior to 9.10 and the very first thing that break is wireless connection.

I love ubuntu very much but today it's giving me alot of headache

Pls help

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Best GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#1

every thing you listed is in the software center. adobe flash player is easy ,at the software center in the top right window type adobe flash and it will show up.click on it then an arrow will show up click the arrow then another window will show up with the options install or web site ..simple ; wine is in the software center in the window just type in wine and it will show up : ' ' you can also use play on linux .to get wifi to work you need to just ask for help on whatever type system you are running .or you can look it up by web search .
 hope this helps !! the most importation thing to remember is it`s not windows it`s better [ from my view point ]

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chiao woei (yongchiaowoei) said : 		#2

Yes. TQ for the prompt reply. I managed to installed wine thru terminal mode and when it finished and when i recheck software center and when i key in "wine" top right hand side and it now show up. I dunno but i find my current installation of ubuntu 9.10 acting very weird, could it be that i m hack. Btw, i started using ubuntu from gutsy onward so i quite familiar with apt-get install

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GREG T. (ubuntuer) said : 		#3

 great . we have been using ubuntu about the same amount of time. i use synaptic package manager most . think 9.10 weird take a look at 10.04 alpha 3 . i down loaded it then run live cd ..

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

Hi :)

Straight after installing Ubuntu you really need to work through the Medibuntu worksheet again
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu

However it sounds like you are getting a lot of unusual errors. Please can you do this command

sudo fdisk -l

where " -l" is a lower-case " -L". If ubuntu is installed into a space less than 10Gb then that might explain some of these weird problems
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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chiao woei (yongchiaowoei) said : 		#5

hi tom, here is your requested infor

ycw@ycw-laptop:~$ fdisk -l
ycw@ycw-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for ycw:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a3240

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 2433 7903 43945807+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 2433 7295 39062016 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 7296 7903 4883728+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
ycw@ycw-laptop:~$ ^C
ycw@ycw-laptop:~$

Is this ok?

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#6

Hi :)

The sizes look ok but the total space of those partitions is only 65Gb whereas the drive is a 320Gb drive. Hopefully if you look at this drive with

System - Administration - Partition Editor

Then you should see a LOT of grey empty space or perhaps something else going on. Otherwise it would seems that the drive is either very badly damaged or faulty, which would explain some of the problems you have been having. Are you able to run "fsck" on the relevant partitions? If this is the drive with bad-sectors already marked then i don't think the marked ones would cause any problems.

I would guess that sda1 is where your 1st install was but the partition editor "gparted" would tell us the "mount points" of each partition and that would help us understand better. If it is sda1 that you should be removing then you will need to try to fix the MBR to point at sda5 before deleting sda1. It can be done afterwards but before is probably better
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot#Recovering%20GRUB%20after%20reinstalling%20Windows

Good luck with this and please let us know how this goes or anything else that might help us to help you
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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chiao woei (yongchiaowoei) said : 		#7

Hi tom
So sorry for not making myself more clearer, for you see this is my new harddisk and i created the small partition on purpose and also disk utility reported this new harddisk as healthly and my old harddisk ( bad sectors ) is now used as external and hopefully, once i figured out how to low level format it will then use it as backup or installed with xp for my children to play game.

Cheer

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#8

hi :)

Ok, so the drive has a LOT of empty grey space at the moment which is fine. Sadly that does remove 1 possible source of problems tho.

Some games do work with linux, especially with Wine
http://appdb.winehq.org/
but it does make sense to install Xp as a dual-boot. There is also Edubuntu or Qimo for even younger children but these tend to have educational games rather than the types of games that kids want to play lol. Some of them are quite fun tho i guess.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#9

Hi again :)

I think it might be better to simply copy all the data off your old drive onto the new one temporarily so that you don't have to worry when you try a low level format. I would probably totally reformat it and start again but that would lose Xp. A re-install of Xp, even re-using the same product/licence key can be a real pain tho.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)