Did an install on the usual netbook (details below):-
Samsung NC10 - hawking, Intel Atom N270, 1.66GHz, 32-bit, 2GiB RAM, 149.05 GiB hard drive, no optical drive, Ethernet and WiFi connections, lubuntu typically installed via USB flashdrive More details:- https://gist.github.com/21b61903871ee685fc79
Now I did an install from USB flash drive. During the install, this error message appeared:-
Error restoring installed applications
An error occurred while restoring previously installed applications. The installation will continue but you may have to manually reinstall some applications after the computer reboots.
After that, the install proceeded and completed.
On booting into the new install, started Firefox and it ran OK.
Played around with Synaptic Package Manager. Could not open it from the GUI, had to do a "sudo synaptic &" from the command line. Later on, I discovered I could not launch GParted from the GUI either - it looks like the GUI does not like launching applications that require super user rights. Had a bit of a problem running "sudo synaptic &" from the command line - quite often it would fail to ask for a password but, on second thoughts, I might have sudo'd already from that terminal window.