Just installed Automatix into Ubuntu and it as solved many of my Linux problems.
Used it to upgrade to Thunderbird 2 from version 1.5 and installed loads of software.
I installed a utility that automatically mounts NTFS and FAT32 drives and now I can read and write to the second hard drive which I have never been able to do before.
There are versions for many Linux distro's.
It worked perfectly for me but a friend installed Automatix and could not boot up after so don't hold me reponsable.
With Automatix Ubuntu is now my OS of choice.
Ken
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