Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

[Methos94]

Had kubuntu for a while now, love it but I've managed to 'break', for lack of a better word, my internet. I've tried to figure it out but to no avail, so I've acknowledged my mistakes and am going to try again. Now to get to the point I'd like to know if there is any way to have kubuntu restore itself to it's basic settings or if I must suck it up and download an image to boot for my computor.

[Snowhog]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

If networking is your only issue, please tells what the problem is - we may be able to save you the trouble of reinstalling and reconfiguring all over again.

[Methos94]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

I did try a while ago but I suppose it's worth a shot though, can't hurt to try right?

I tried to use wicd since I couldn't get knetwork manager to connect to certain networks, after looking around all fingers pointed to wicd as being the most user friendly. So I installed it and it worked fine. When I rebooted however it wouldn't connect to my networks through wicd or knet, googling told me that sometimes removing all knetwork components would fix it. Well it didn't and now I'm stuck with wicd still not working and I can't reinstall knetwork manager because some of it needs downloaded and my computor isn't connected to the internet. Suggestions are welcome but please try to keep it in simple terms I'm still relatively new to linux.

More specifically on how it doesn't connectl; When I click on the connect button on my chosen network wicd attempts for a while and then says 'Connection Failed: Unable to Get IP Address'

[Snowhog]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

Let's check and see if you have the wicd packages required. Open KPackageKit, or better, if you have it installed, Synaptic, and search on wicd. You should have the following packages installed:

python-wicd
wicd-gtk
wicd-curses
wicd-daemon
wicd (a meta-package only)

Assuming these are installed, then check that all components of network-manager-kde have been removed. Open a console and type:

sudo apt-get remove network-manager-kde

As to the wicd packages above, what do you show?

[Methos94]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

wicd curses is not installed and I can't as it requires 289kb to be downloaded, no internet no download.

The remove knet command told me that the resource was temporarily unavailable, could not get a lock on /var/lib/dpkg/lock

[Snowhog]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

Check that following packages are installed as well:

python
python-urwid

If they are (likely), then we only need to get you the wicd-curses package. It's only 70k in size, so I could email it to you.

[Methos94]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

python is python-urwid however is not

[Snowhog]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

Okay. I've downloaded that as well.

Check and see if these packages are installed:

python-support
libc6

[Methos94]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

YAY packages I have!!!

[Snowhog]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

Okay, so as to make this simple, I've uploaded the two packages to the Downloads > Other section here in KFN for you. Get them downloaded - to a folder in your /home folder for now.

[Methos94]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

Hmm Im gonna need a flash drive... Ill be back soon please check it feels like I'm getting somewhere

[Methos94]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

Mk not gonna be able to be get a flash drive tonight, I'll be back on tomorrow hopefully with better luck on finding a flash drive. So hopefully we can resolve it then, thank you for the help so far.

[Snowhog]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

You're welcome. Once you have the files, wait until further guidance is provided. I'll be back on tomorrow night - I live in Alaska, so take the time difference in to account.

[Methos94]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

Time difference accounted for, I live in alaska :P but I now have the files and am awaiting further guidance

[Snowhog]

Re: Restoring Kubuntu to it's former glory

I assume that you saved the two .deb packages somewhere in your /home directory? Open a console and cd into that directory. Then type:

sudo dpkg --install python-urwid_0.9.9.1-1_i386.deb
sudo dpkg --install wicd-curses_1.7.0+ds1-2_all.deb