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)!

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    I guess thats “thw Ubuntu experience”. Ubuntu IS NOT general Linux. They do their own proprietary Snap thing, which may be liked by developers but is not the standard.

    Flatpaks never have too little permissions, its more that they have too many.

    Run unsnap from Github, its an awesome tool and actually makes Ubuntu usable

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for the advice. I actually got it running last night.