I have discovered that the expert mode install actually means you need to be an expert to fix the bugs in it, as opposed to being an expert at installing Linux. After I completed the install and logged in as a non-priviledged user I found that a number of tools, including synaptic package installer did not work. I checked that apt-get upgrade from a root account worked ok.
I quick check in bugzilla located that the expert install has more holes in it than
Sonny's car did in the Godfather. See bug
9832 for the specific bug I hit. The answer was to add the un-privilledged user to the
/etc/sudoers file manually.
After I had made the changes, all the tools that required root have started working. Lesson of the day
- Don't use expert mode to install Ubuntu!!
One of my other bugbears with the system is now amended. The desktop now has a lovely penguin in a scarf, playing the the snow background. This has replaced the cold coffee default screen background.
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