-d means "upgrade to the pre-release (development) version"
Since 18.04 has been released, the -d may do something rather different than you want.
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-d means "upgrade to the pre-release (development) version"
Since 18.04 has been released, the -d may do something rather different than you want.
The page was removed in late 2017 when the Ubuntu Community website was replaced with the Ubuntu Community Hub.
I think you might be the very first person to notice.
Already done for you. Check your 'Software & Updates' control panel, and ensure that Security Upgrade are set to install automatically.
Non-security upgrades are rather optional. If you want them,...
Simply choose a different mirror in your Software & Updates control panel, or edit manually.
Exactly how are you attempting to install Chrome and 'get rid of' FF and TB?
Are you following instructions from someplace?
Backup data: Backup the entire contents of her home directory, including hidden files: /home/<her_username>.
This will preserve her email and contacts and the rest, which are stored in some of those...
17.04 reached End of Life last week.
The 17.04 repositories have been closed and withdrawn. That is why you cannot reach them.
Time for you to upgrade to 17.10.
There has been NO discussion of dropping 32-bit on the Lubuntu-devel mailing list.
Quite the contrary: https://twitter.com/LubuntuOfficial/status/913532513234096128
Maybe you should verify that it's reproducible, then file a bug. That's what pre-release is for - testing, discovering, and reporting these little bugs so the developers can fix them.
When you...
Help with what?
What are you trying to do?
What is going wrong?
There's a whole set of stickies at the top of the Secuirty sub-forum to orient users to Security in Ubuntu, and to help you ask the right questions to keep your system safe.
Start with...
Instead of a 'foo-debug' package, look for the 'foo.ddeb' package. That's right '.ddeb' instead of .deb
These packages are hosted in Launchpad and in a separate repo..
Explanation:...
You have learned an important lesson: Never, ever rm files that are placed/removed by the package manager...because this happens. Every time.
The following space-hogs do not belong in your /boot....
You need to figure out why initramfs-tool won't install.
Please show us the complete output from:
sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools
If you read all the error messages line-by-line, you...
I wonder why an important file has gone missing?
Cleaning up from that may be rather painful in a space-constrained environment.
A listing of files in that environment may be helpful. Perhaps...
Locate and delete one of the duplicates in sources.list.
Why do you have both 32-bit and 64-bit sources listed?
Your config looks good.
Unattended-upgrades is intended to run daily or weekly.
I suppose you can cronjob u-u to run more often if you really want to. I see no benefit to do such, but it's not my...
You are mistaken about "the whole point of Ubuntu".
See https://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy
You are, of course, free to suggest Open Source alternatives that meet the...
Unattended Upgrades seems to be working properly on your system.
If you have reason to believe otherwise, check the systemd timer for the daily-run-time, then check the timestamp for corresponding...
Unattended Upgrades is installed, running, and successfully completing it's runs.
Here's how we know that:
The stamp only places upon successful completion.
Next step, please show us the...
Look at the highlighted line on the bottom. It's prompting you for a filename to save as. If you are happy with the current name, hit <Enter>.
You will use the 'nano' editor many times as an...
What you need to copy-and-paste is in https://askubuntu.com/questions/800479/ubuntu-16-04-slow-boot-apt-daily-service
It doesn't disable apt-daily.service. It works around a bug. The bug is that...
That is very confusing.
That kind of terminology leads me to think you might not be creating your LiveUSB properly.
Are you following some kind of instructions? If so, a link would be helpful.
Find a local Linux User Group meeting.
That's a lot of what they do.
Please show us the complete output of the following:
ls -l /var/lib/apt/periodic/
systemctl list-timers | grep apt
The first lists the timestamps of many apt actions, a handy tool to see when...