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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)!

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[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Edit: nice to hear Debian bookworm and MX are actually up to date!

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 points 2 years 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