Από το τερματικό δίνουμε την εντολή

sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun

για να εγκατασταθεί η εκδοση Java της Sun και μετά

sudo update-alternatives --config java

Οταν εμφανιστεί η λίστα με τις διαθέσιμες εκδόσεις επιλέγουμε

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java

Βεβαιωθήτε οτι το universe repository είναι ενεργοποιημένο.

Στο τερματικό εκτελέστε τις παρακάτω εντολές

sudo apt-get install numlockx

sudo gedit /etc/X11/gdm/Init/Default

Προσθέστε τις ακόλουθες γραμμές στο τέλος, πριν από τη γραμμή “exit 0″:

if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/numlockx ]; then
/usr/bin/X11/numlockx on
fi

Απενεργοποιήστε το numlock και επανεκκινήστε το X πιέζοντας Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

Το numlock θα ενεργοποιείται σε κάθε εκκίνηση.

I got Gutsy by going through the Update Manager by typing in the Run program:

update-manager -c -d

After Feisty was 'upgraded' to Gutsy I proceeded to install the graphics driver with no luck. I tried every possible way I could find in the Ubuntu forums to no avail. It just would not work. Also the GRUB had 3 kernels listed on boot up but only one of them worked. The most latest kernel in the developmental froze on boot up, the second kernel could not be found by GRUB and the last one was successful albeit being the oldest of the three.

Despite the graphics driver headache, I liked some of the new features of Gutsy most notable to me being my printer being automatically installed and "Screen and Graphics Preferences"...this would have been really useful had my graphics driver installed correctly.

 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=524981&page=3

It was actually a bloody setting in the Windows driver of the ethernet card!!!!  That setting was the 'Wake on LAN after shutdown' setting being disabled.

As I was already in Windows, I opened up the Device Manager and brought up the driver for my ethernet card.  Sure enough, it was disabled.  I enabled the feature and rebooted into Ubuntu and crossed my fingers.  Eureka!!!  It worked.  What also gave me a pleasant surprise was that I connected through my Belkin Wireless G Router right out of the box.  Belkin doesn't support Linux, Linux supports Belkin.  Now I am a happy man.  This weekend, I am going to upgrade my install to the Gutsy Tribe 5 and check out the new features.  I'll let you know how it turns out.

Now, remember the problems I discussed earlier with respect to installing Ubuntu?  It seems I have found a temperary solution until the LiveCD/DVD boots with no issues.  That solution is called Wubi - Windows Ubuntu Installer (my assumption on the acronym).

Go to:   www.wubi-installer.org

I installed wubi to the C: drive as any other drive didn't work.  Do this by double-clicking the wubi-installer icon.  During the install process, the installer downloads the Ubuntu 7.04 i386 Alternate Install ISO and uses this to install Ubuntu.  It took a little bit of time but it installed and I was able to boot into Ubuntu.  YAY!!!!  Finally.  However, I don't have internet connectivity yet as I have yet to figure out my router.  I think it will be a small fix to just reset the router.  Connecting to the internet using pppoeconf is not a problem.  Off to the Ubuntu forums for me.  Will let you know how it turns out.

The only drawback I can see for me is that this is a loopmounted installation meaning that it is installed inside a file (similar to virtual disk) and not to a partition (the traditional way).  The creators claim that you will be able to install to a partition soon such that it would be the same as installing from the LiveCD.  Might be as soon as Gutsy. If that occurs, then the problems I mention in my previous post about booting to the LiveCD will be a minor stepping stone to using Ubuntu vice a major hurdle.

Ubuntu uses synaptic package manager for software installation, you can find it at system>administration>synaptic package manager. By default ubuntu will install with some of the software channels (sources of install packages) disabled, this is something you will probably want to correct and there are two ways of doing it.

The first way is to go to system>administration>software sources, you will have to enter your password to gain root access, which I will explain a bit further down the page.

After you enter your password, you are given a dialog box titled Software Sources, this box would have opened up in the Ubuntu Software tab, in the check boxes of this tab tick all the boxes except the source code box, if you want source code, you really don't need to be reading this guide. Click the close button and you will get an alert that tells you the available software information is out of date, and do you want to reload the information? Click the reload button and the software sources will be updated. Thats it.

The other way, which I prefer just because it is quicker, is from the command line or terminal, go to applications>accessories>terminal and type or you can copy and paste:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then enter your password, your password will not show up in the terminal so you have to get it right.

sudo gives root access, gedit is a text editor(like notepad) the rest of the command is the file path which is a file called sources.list in the apt folder which is in turn in the etc folder. This is essentially the same task as opening software sources under the system menu.

When the sources list opens you will see some text that looks like this:

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
 ## repository.

# deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe

# deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
 ## repository.

# deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

# deb-src http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

Basically what you need to do is uncomment the required software repositories, I have hi-lighted the example above, to do this, you need to find any lines that start with # deb and then delete the # and the space immediately after it. When this is done, save it, don't change the name or the location of the file.

Then go back to your terminal and type or copy and paste:

sudo apt-get update

This is to run apt-get(the software behind synaptic) with root access and download the updated software information, just as above we re-loaded the information with the software sources tool in system>administration.

When this has finished downloading in the terminal, the job is done and you can go find all kinds of stuff at system>administration>synaptic package manager.

JS