Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: re display problems

Then you likely either don't have dpkg installed or are missing xorg files
which points to an installation problem. You can try to install missing
items from the command line using apt-get.

For example you could type: sudo apt-get install dpkg

If it says that you have it installed then try replacing dpkg with
xserver-xorg (in the above command)

I personally would try a re-installation. It takes only twenty minutes or so
and may be better than trying to figure out what files you are missing. The
one caveat is that if you have any data files then you need to back them up.
This is why a separate home partition simplifies things. You would not need
to worry about data.

I am sorry, but I forgotten what distribution. One of the penalties of
cutting out old comments. I think that it was Ubuntu 9.10, but am unsure. If
it was Fedora or another rpm distro then dpkg won't work.

If a re-installation does not work then I would try another distribution.
This is one of the benefits of having over 300 to choose from. Other good
ones to try are Mint, SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS or Mandriva. The first two are
Debian based and the last two are RPM based. If you have difficult hardware
often a more recent kernel version is helpful. Ubuntu 9.10 uses 2.6.31 and
the next version of Ubuntu uses 2.6.32. Older kernels do not have as many
drivers and support as many technologies. The bottom line is get the most
recent version that you can. I would even try Ubuntu 10.04 which should have
the RC out any time (later today) and is pretty much what will be released
next Thursday as the final release (save a few updates next Tuesday or so).

Roy

On 21 April 2010 20:26, John <goetzjr@live.com> wrote:

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