I just installed CLI from the alternate hardy heron ubuntu iso. I was going to add the necessary repositories to install LXDE from the PCMan’s repository. The only problem was that my keyboard did not want to type the character [tilde]=~.

My workaround

From my main install, I created and uploaded a file called [tilde.txt] which contained only the ONE character ‘~’. I was able to get this and append it to sources.list – and voila 🙂

$ wget http://location/tilde.txt
$ sudo su
$ cat tilde.txt >> /etc/apt/sources.list

I could now complete the full deb-location and install.