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x-window-system-core

Asked by Caliga

Hello, and thanks for any assistance in advance:)

After attempting to install ubuntu on my old satellite laptop, i found that it would end up with just a black screen after loading.

Eventually i found this article on how to bypass this problem:

http://michaelminn.com/linux/toshiba1800/

So far i have managed to get up to the point of installing the ubuntu desktop, but the problem is neither of hte commands:

sudo apt-get install xorg ubuntu-desktop
OR
sudo apt-get install x-window-system-core ubuntu-desktop

will work for me, they both produce the following error

"E: Couldn't find package"

Any help would be greately apreciated, thanks!

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Philip Wyett (philwyett) said : 		#1

Can you list the cdrom contents using: ls /media/cdrom

Please copy the output if any.

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Caliga (caliga) said : 		#2

After entering ls /media/cdrom i the following information appears on the screen: cdromupgrade doc isolinux pics preseed ubuntu
dists install md5sum.txt pool README.diskdefines

And thats about it? =/

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Deepak Mishra (dpux) said : 		#3

have you enabled all the repositories (by uncommenting the appropriate lines in /etc/apt/sources.list) ?

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Caliga (caliga) said : 		#4

Iim sorry to say this is my first ubuntu install, and as a result i haven't a clue what that means? Im having to do everything from the command line because of the problems with this laptop=/

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Philip Wyett (philwyett) said : 		#5

Please run the following command and copy the result.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep "deb cdrom"

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#6

Please tell have you trouble to open a terminal... from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal ...?

if yes go to step 1:

if no go to step 2

1) To make all command requested please press CTRL+ALT+F2 to get a terminal access, make the login with your user and password then type requested command... on step 2

2) Put your Ubuntu live install cd into cdrom and/or please connect yout pc to the net.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xorg ubuntu-desktop

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then if you want to reboot your pc, from command line,type:

sudo reboot

Hope this helps

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