@matigo Download Managers are blocked on my kids computers. Had to adjust that in the firewall.
This points to why Linux on the Desktop is a non-starter for muggles. The default applications app in Ubuntu didn't show Google Chrome, so I tried downloading the .deb file to install. The GUI tried to install but failed because dependencies. No errors to show that, but when I tried doing it via the CLI, it told me that was the reason.
apt-get was also failing with a cryptic message as well. Ended up Googling for a debug command on the CLI, which when I ran it, told me exactly what was happening (my firewall was blocking access to apt-get).
Granted, this entire thing was caused by something I did, but if something fails, and you're using the GUI, the system should indicate as such and provide enough details to figure out what's going on. >_<