** Description changed:

- My computer is wired via a SpeedStream DSL modem/router to the telephone
- line. Before I can go online my ISP requires a logon with password. I
- cannot do this when booting with any Ubuntu installation DVD I've used
- (14.04 & 16.04, both 32 and 64 bit). There is no way I've found to run
- pppoeconf to attach to the internet unless pppoeconf is available to do
- so.
+ pppoeconf is missing from the ubuntu-mate-desktop meta-package.
+ 
+ Impact: My computer is wired via a SpeedStream DSL modem/router to the
+ telephone line. Before I can go online my ISP requires a logon with
+ password. I cannot do this when booting with any Ubuntu installation DVD
+ I've used (14.04 & 16.04, both 32 and 64 bit). There is no way I've
+ found to run pppoeconf to attach to the internet unless pppoeconf is
+ available to do so.
  
  Any attempt to use pppoeconf to configure the connection just tells me
  the package is not installed and to use sudo apt-get install pppoeconf
  but, of course, I cannot do this until pppoeconf enables me to get
  connected.
  
- My workaround has been to download the pppoeconf.deb package to a thumb
- drive, then use GDebi to install it. This works but it's clumsy and it's
- only been through trial and error and a whole lot of time that I've
- figured this out. I doubt any newbie on dial-up or DSL will be able to
- connect to the internet and so is likely to abandon the OS.
+ Test Case: apt rdepends pppoeconf should list pppoeconf in ubuntu-mate-
+ core and ubuntu-mate-desktop.
+ 
+ Workaround: My workaround has been to download the pppoeconf.deb package
+ to a thumb drive, then use GDebi to install it. This works but it's
+ clumsy and it's only been through trial and error and a whole lot of
+ time that I've figured this out. I doubt any newbie on dial-up or DSL
+ will be able to connect to the internet and so is likely to abandon the
+ OS.

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Title:
  pppoeconf not available before or after installation on DSL

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