To Chris, Martin and all others who've worked so hard to produce this "fix"...
I've followed both links provided - with the result that I have only the vaguest notion of what it is you are asking me to do (re testing), and, absolutely no idea of how to do it. I am in complete awe of those of you who do understand the incredible complexity involved in creating and maintaining systems such as Ubuntu. I hasten to thank you for the "fix" that I will just take on faith will work and will survive into upcoming versions. I am a longtime Windows user and have only recently switched from XP to Ubuntu. My background is in social services not computer science. I am a USER to the computer as a DRIVER is to an automobile. I know nothing about what makes it tick under the hood and can only "drive" it when it works properly. I again thank all of you for your continuing efforts to perfect this great Ubuntu family of OS. So... I regret I cannot "test" - hopefully those more skilled than I can help in this regard. Sincerely, Richard Earl On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Chris J Arges <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Richard, or anyone else affected, > > Accepted ubuntu-mate-meta into xenial-proposed. The package will build > now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu- > mate-meta/1.154.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository. > > Please help us by testing this new package. See > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to > enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update > out to other Ubuntu users. > > If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, > mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag > from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the > bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to > verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help > us make a better decision. > > Further information regarding the verification process can be found at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in > advance! > > ** Tags added: verification-needed > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607555 > > Title: > pppoeconf not available before or after installation on DSL > > Status in ubuntu-mate: > Triaged > Status in ubuntu-mate-meta package in Ubuntu: > Fix Released > Status in ubuntu-mate-meta source package in Xenial: > Fix Committed > > Bug description: > 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. > > 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. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1607555/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1607555 Title: pppoeconf not available before or after installation on DSL To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate/+bug/1607555/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
