William, download a Desktop CD image from Ubuntu Oneiric (Beta 1), burn it onto a CD, and boot with this CD. As soon as you arrive at the live session desktop, update the live system by running
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
in a terminal window and after that install texlive. Then try to do your ps2pdf and dvipdf operations in this environment to check whether they work better.
This does not affect your orriginal system. All package installations into the live system are done in a temporary storage.
William, download a Desktop CD image from Ubuntu Oneiric (Beta 1), burn it onto a CD, and boot with this CD. As soon as you arrive at the live session desktop, update the live system by running
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
in a terminal window and after that install texlive. Then try to do your ps2pdf and dvipdf operations in this environment to check whether they work better.
This does not affect your orriginal system. All package installations into the live system are done in a temporary storage.