The Lucid Lynx Thread

[Odly]

Yeah I realized it was that and then I think something went wrong with my disk when I tried to write it so Im creating a VM of it now to see if it installs properly from the iso, if it does I'l mount it and make a another attempt at installing it (first try I lost my 9.10 ubuntu)

Edit: Out of interest how do you guys do a checksum's? If Ubuntu stops supporting it as a option on the disk I better learn how in XP and in Ubuntu.

 

[Centaur]

MD5SUM on Linux

Most Linux distributions come with the md5sum utility so installation is usually unnecessary. We are going to use the Ubuntu 8.10 LiveCD for the following example:

Check the iso file

Manual method

First open a terminal and go to the correct directory to check a downloaded iso file:

cd download_directory

Then run the following command from within the download directory.

md5sum ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso

md5sum should then print out a single line after calculating the hash:

24ea1163ea6c9f5dae77de8c49ee7c03 ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso

Compare the hash (the alphanumeric string on left) that your machine calculated with the corresponding hash on the UbuntuHashes page.

An easy way to do this is to open the UbuntuHashes page in your browser, then copy the hash your machine calculated from the terminal into the "Find" box in your browser (in Firefox you can open the "Find" box by pressing <Ctrl> <F>).

When both hashes match exactly then the downloaded file is almost certainly intact. If the hashes do not match, then there was a problem with either the download or a problem with the server. You should download the file again from either the same mirror, or from a different mirror if you suspect a server error. If you continuously receive an erroneous file from a server, please be kind and notify the webmaster of that mirror so they can investigate the issue.

Semi-automatic method

Ubuntu distributes the MD5 hashes in a file called MD5SUMS near the bottom of the download page for your release http://releases.ubuntu.com.

First download the MD5SUMS file to the same directory as the iso. Then run the following in a terminal.

cd download_directory
md5sum -c MD5SUMS

md5sum will generate a bunch of warnings. Don't worry: the OK message will be buried somewhere within it!

md5sum: ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso: No such file or directory
ubuntu-8.10-alternate-amd64.iso: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso: No such file or directory
ubuntu-8.10-alternate-i386.iso: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64.iso: No such file or directory
ubuntu-8.10-desktop-amd64.iso: FAILED open or read
ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso: OK
md5sum: ubuntu-8.10-netbook-remix-i386.img: No such file or directory
ubuntu-8.10-netbook-remix-i386.img: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ubuntu-8.10-server-amd64.iso: No such file or directory
ubuntu-8.10-server-amd64.iso: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso: No such file or directory
ubuntu-8.10-server-i386.iso: FAILED open or read
md5sum: wubi.exe: No such file or directory
wubi.exe: FAILED open or read
md5sum: WARNING: 7 of 8 listed files could not be read

In this case the message we want is on the seventh line.

ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso: OK

Check the CD

So far so good, you have downloaded an iso and verified its integrity. When you boot from the CD you will be given the option to test its integrity. Great, but if the CD is corrupt then you have already wasted time rebooting. You can check the integrity of the CD without rebooting as follows.

Manual method

md5sum /dev/cdrom

Check the calculated hash against UbuntuHashes as shown for the iso file above. Depending on your system, you may need to change cdrom to cdrom0 (or even cdrom1 if you have two CD drives).

Semi-automatic method

The MD5 hashes for every file on the CD are listed in a file called md5sum.txt. You can use this file to check the integrity of all the files on the CD.

cd /media/cdrom
md5sum -c md5sum.txt | grep -v "OK$"

This will automatically check every file against the MD5 hashes stored in the file. (Again, you may need to change cdrom, depending on your system). Beware, it can take a long time so don't worry if your terminal seems to have hung; provided the CD drive is still accessing, it is probably still working. It should not output anything if it there were no errors, and an error message if a file failed the check. The grep command filters out all of the files that pass the check, because there are usually a lot of them.

From: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Ubuntu Hashes:

md5 Hash
Version

a54366aa72d6b576ee8fc0215f8a13b9
ubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso

5b2dadacfd692b4f2d5c7cf034539262
ubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso

3e0f72becd63cad79bf784ac2b34b448
ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso

d044a2a0c8103fc3e5b7e18b0f7de1c8
ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso

0b0e0d36050d9980ec995262eb9f2e6b
ubuntu-10.04-netbook-armel+dove.img

9e0d6ac7b69bb7912d49369a6807e39d
ubuntu-10.04-netbook-armel+imx51.img

712277c7868ab374c4d3c73cff1d95cb
ubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386.iso

8ee25c78f4c66610b6872a05ee9ad81b
ubuntu-10.04-server-amd64.iso

15342636441181f7a19c65984b44e24c
ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso

e81f931b1de017520f6d4aa4f78c5c8b
wubi.exe


f79cede2a3cb74c6d9e028a2bcfc2e28
kubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso

8def8b39aceae8e27fdcf2af107991cb
kubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso

5b256bf515ae49749ac03a1af9d407c0
kubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso

0ef722fd6b348e9dcf03812d071d68ba
kubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso

40972633cea6c8d38ff26dade3eec51e
kubuntu-10.04-netbook-i386.iso


d1d2cedc4fdddc9529c8216ecb29e26f
edubuntu-10.04-dvd-amd64.iso

5eccab9d5956956c3dc28d5a6c4a2e69
edubuntu-10.04-dvd-i386.iso


a60a2c8e3cf4cb20ba9ca4339bea92cb
xubuntu-10.04-alternate-amd64.iso

62b06b14573c2fc5b2bf5a526da15e65
xubuntu-10.04-alternate-i386.iso

49d29d11c3eb51f862641a934c86dd79
xubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso

7f064bc012025a5307ef6d81b0bc4c87
xubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso

From: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes

Hope this helps

 

[Centaur]

MD5SUM on Windows

Windows does not come with md5sum. You must download one from another location, preferably one that you trust. There are command line utilities (md5sum.exe) that work similarly to the Unix utility; one public domain version with source is available from Fourmilab, but the version available from Cygwin is probably easier to install and update, and Cygwin is also recommended and trusted as the source for many more Unixy utilities. Once installed, Cygwin's md5sum behaves exactly as described in MD5SUM on Linux above.

There are also graphical tools such as the one used in the walk-through provided below.

1. Download and install winMD5Sum, a free and open source hash verification program.
2. Right-click the ISO file.
3. Click Send To, then winMD5Sum.
4. Wait for winMD5Sum to load and finish the checksum (this may take a significant amount of time depending on your computer's performance).
5. Copy the corresponding hash from UbuntuHashes into the bottom text box.
6. Click "Compare"
7. A message box will say "MD5 Check Sums are the same" if the hashes are equal.

From: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Check the above post for the hashes.

 

[Ockie]

Just finished installing 10.04. LOVING IT! Could not figure out how to upgrade with the disc so did a clean install....now busy redoing all my goodies like skype and codecs etc etc. Graphics, sound wifi is all working fine. YAY!

 

[Centaur]

Those that don't like the LH window buttons can use Ubuntu Tweak to adjust the side of the buttons.

More info: http://ubuntu-tweak.com/

Enjoy...

 

[sn3rd]

Those that don't like the LH window buttons can use Ubuntu Tweak to adjust the side of the buttons.

More info: http://ubuntu-tweak.com/

Enjoy...

You can also change it by doing
Alt + F2 -> gconf-editor
apps->metacity->general->button_layout ; change it to

menu:minimize,maximize,close

 

[MickZA]

Just loaded up 10.4 on a system and had a problem with the adblock plus addon for firefox - will not install via the firefox tools tab. Problem is mentioned on google but my quick workaround was to install from a third party site.

Doubt the problem is 10.4 related but, work comes first, will investigate later & report.

 

[BigAl-sa]

One that isn't working (and I can't see where to enable it) are the flyovers in the notification panel. One I rely on quite a lot is the battery level notification. The network manager flyover is working, but none of the others are.

 

[Waaib]

GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEEEEEE!!!!!! *FALLS DOWN ON FLOOR GOOING A MOERSE A HISSY FIT!*

^ This made me laugh. Super gay! Fantastic.

I'm almost done downloading. Planning to install inside a VirtualBox on Win7. Never done that before.

 

[Mercurious]

Just installed on my desktop and is looking good.

 

[Smiley_lauf]

For simple HOWTO install Adobe Flash Player plugin in Ubuntu 10.04 x64 bit follow these instructions.

 

[dacha]

10.04 is a total suck:

1. Suspend/resume regression with NVidia and nouveau drivers (resume cold boots instead of resuming).
2. Huawei E220 3G uselessly broken even when I kill upowerd and udev-disks-whatever (which fixed it in 9.10), I'll be downloading and recompiling source code for NetworkManager and co to see why.
3. PS/2 mouse still broken (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6105), luckily I've made a patch but the kernel source I have to apply it to is a huge download.
4. 3D effects do not work with nouveau drivers, it tries to install NVidia drivers but of course can't because 3G doesn't work.
5. Social networking, Ubuntu One, software updates, packages all useless without 3G.
6. Of course even mdadm isn't in the default install, so can't access my RAID drives without 3G.
7. The boot time was meant to be 10 seconds in this release, it's closer to 25 for me.
8. The window controls are on the wrong side. Copying MacOS I see...
9. The theme colours are a blatant copy of Linux Mint 8. The black is also too dark to read easily in a well-lit room.

All in all a disasterous release, with terrible regressions from last release like 3G support still not fixed; Ubuntu's dark sins expressed as the black theme?

I'll stick with 9.04 on my laptop for now thanks.

 

[Waaib]

10.04 is a total suck:

1. Suspend/resume regression with NVidia and nouveau drivers (resume cold boots instead of resuming).
2. Huawei E220 3G uselessly broken even when I kill upowerd and udev-disks-whatever (which fixed it in 9.10), I'll be downloading and recompiling source code for NetworkManager and co to see why.
3. PS/2 mouse still broken (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6105), luckily I've made a patch but the kernel source I have to apply it to is a huge download.
4. 3D effects do not work with nouveau drivers, it tries to install NVidia drivers but of course can't because 3G doesn't work.
5. Social networking, Ubuntu One, software updates, packages all useless without 3G.
6. Of course even mdadm isn't in the default install, so can't access my RAID drives without 3G.
7. The boot time was meant to be 10 seconds in this release, it's closer to 25 for me.
8. The window controls are on the wrong side. Copying MacOS I see...
9. The theme colours are a blatant copy of Linux Mint 8. The black is also too dark to read easily in a well-lit room.

All in all a disasterous release, with terrible regressions from last release like 3G support still not fixed; Ubuntu's dark sins expressed as the black theme?

I'll stick with 9.04 on my laptop for now thanks.

I like the pretty colors though.

 

[pkid]

I like the pretty colors though.

I do too. On the plus side all the issues I had with 9.10 seem to be fixed - can actually run it on my MSI Wind Netbook. I still think 9.04 was more stable though.

 

[Odly]

Lol at top two posts. Sucks to hear dachas has all those 3g issues the auto eth0 issue I think a lot of people were havin is fixed now.. Haven't test my wireless yet. Color's are pretty I think all though no doubt there is a bit of a mac feel to it.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Well its now 1am and I've nuked 10.04 off my wifes PC and installing Arch Linux - thank goodness I did not nuke my main PC.

Anyway, the issues with 10.04 are that it is dog slow on her 430 Celeron with 512-DDR2. Gnome runs fast but as soon as I open two of her spreadsheets, the box starts to swap like mad. Also the social apps are cool, but I only have 300MB per month available on the 3G that I will install.

I monitored the "background" bandwidth from these apps and its enough to make a difference - a conservative estimate was 100MB per month.

Also had an issue where I could not log into the box, even after a few reboots.

While the eye-candy is nice, 10.04 has now completley me switched me to Arch Linux.

 

[MickZA]

Well its now 1am and I've nuked 10.04 off my wifes PC and installing Arch Linux - thank goodness I did not nuke my main PC.

Anyway, the issues with 10.04 are that it is dog slow on her 430 Celeron with 512-DDR2.

While the eye-candy is nice, 10.04 has now completley me switched me to Arch Linux.

I think you made the correct decision to go with Arch in this case

You have to accept that the minimum hardware requirements for the mainstream distros (fedora, suse & ubuntu - not trying to start a war here ) despite some ridiculous claims on their home sites, are dual processor, 1 GB memory & 40GB disk(7200rpm) for adequate performance. Lets face it, Windows 7 has also left a lot of 3 year old systems behind as well.

I think trying to run any current version of these distros (unless it is designed to be lightweight) on anything less diminishes the Linux experience and leads to Linux being denigrated by noobs.

OT, another pet peeve is the people who toast Windows on their laptops and then slate Linux when they can't make it work instead

 

[sn3rd]

I'm sorry to hear that. While Lucid was far from a trouble-free install for me, it wasn't a mission at all. And I'm running it on 2 netbooks that don't appear to be having any trouble coping with the eye candy, let alone a few applications. I'm still running 512MB on my AAO, and it hasn't had any issues yet.

 

[BigAl-sa]

Well its now 1am and I've nuked 10.04 off my wifes PC and installing Arch Linux - thank goodness I did not nuke my main PC.

Wish me luck then, I'm starting the Kubuntu upgrade on my desktop now

 

[flarkit]

Mixed feelings about Lucid here. I downloaded the Alternate CD, in order to upgrade that way. So I also had to do a full update first (180Mb later). I fired up the OS upgrade from the CD and it then went and downloaded a massive 700Mb+ worth of packages and whatnot. First time ever that I've wound up using 1.6Gb on the 1st of the month.

After that the upgrade finished, I had to fiddle a little to get Compiz running. At least my window buttons are sitting exactly where they were! I found that Wine doesn't use PulseAudio properly, so I uninstalled it and installed a propietary Wine1.2 package which is able to work properly. Now I'm finding some horrible flaws in Firefox though. Sound doesn't work in streaming video (like Youtube), even after I'd checked that my X-Fi is the default sound-card. All other sound works fine. However, when I open a video clip in FF, it starts playing the video (no sound), then FF's virtual memory usage shoots up to 2.5Gb (!!!) and the app seems to freeze. Not cool IMO.

Lucid's overall bootup time seems slower than 9.10's too.

Hopefully 10.04 will grow on me, but once again, it seems that doing an upgrade to Ubuntu, is simply not the way to get a smoothly running OS. I'm really NOT inclined to reinstall everything from scratch!