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?

  • ikidd@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.