Comment 5 for bug 1607555

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 address hidden>
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
>
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> 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.
>
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