About a week ago I setup Ubuntu as my primary OS on an old machine. It is my first time trying a unix based OS (previously windows). It has been ok, but it seems like every time I try to install something I run into problems. The app has the wrong permissions or I don’t have the right packages or I need to change port settings ect… I was expecting a learning curve but I wanted to know if this is something I should expect to be a long term issue or if I will aquire the skills to side step stuff like this over time?
Update* I got it working. Last night I reinstalled it and figured it out. Two issues. On initial install I failed to update one of the packages needed. I also assigned the service to a group without the required permissions. On reinstall I rectified both of these issues and it works flawlessly. Thanks all for your help and input (and ignoring typos in the title)!
This doesn’t seem like normal behaviour at all. I would try a reinstall or another distro like Linux Mint and see if it persists. I doubt it will.
The other comments in here will probably be confusing to a new user. Your graphical package manager in a user-friendly distro like Ubuntu should just work, and if it doesn’t, there is a problem with the install.
I second this. It doesn’t sound right. Make sure you have downloaded from the official Ubuntu website and make a new usb and reinstall Ubuntu. It shouldn’t do that.