Comment 13 for bug 442941

My bug having to do with the tzdata package just got redirected here, so I thought I would throw in my two cents. The bug can be worked around on a fresh install by entering the following into a terminal:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Copy pasta that and you are good to go.

On a side note, it seems silly that a year and a half later and we are still being redirected to the same bug. Why is this issue not being resolved? Seems like three releases should be plenty of time to work out a bug like this. Might be a bit easier to get Ubuntu a bit more mainstream if you didn't have a problem that forced you to learn to use a terminal just to get a piece of software. Also, it wastes time to not be able to install all the necessary packages BEFORE the initial update. Doing a 165 MB update just to be able to install a few pieces of software that will require another 60 MB worth of updates is the kind of crap you expect from Windows, not Linux.