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)!

  • Papamousse@beehaw.org
    11·
    1 year ago

    I’m using MX Linux, I try to avoid snap and flatpak…nothing like a good old .deb installing right away

    EDIT because someone wrote non-sense below, MX is the #1 distro on distrowatch for years and the latest MX23 is based on debian 12 “bookworm” which is a month old. It’s using 6.4.4 kernel from last week as of writing. This is a cutting edge distro.

      • Papamousse@beehaw.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        What are you talking about? MX23 is based on debian 12 “bookworm” which is a month old. It’s using 6.4.4 kernel from last week. Please edit your message.

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Crazyyy. This must be because of the stable fixing phase. Now everything is set and the distros will diverge some more again. On Fedora I am on Kernel 6.4.x too