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I was upgrading Ubuntu on a laptop. From 18.04 to 20.04 LTS to be precise. During "sudo do-release-upgrade" at one stage when I was asked to remove some extra packages , I decided to read the...

Have you installed NVidia drivers ?

I try to update and then upgrade this PC. I get:


21 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

now:


:~$ sudo apt upgrade

[...]

According to Setting>Displays current resolution is 1368 x 768 . Max resolution is 1920 x 1080 .

This is a laptop with single Ubuntu LTS OS (no other one) . GRUB version is 2.04 . I removed old kernels but still I get tiny texts in GRUB.

Hi,

I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS from 18.04 LTS. Many things seem OK but now GRUB text is too small and tough to see. How can I correct it ?

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When I click categories in Software , for example Games, I only see installed apps. How can I see them all again?

These suggestions did not work:
...

In post #3 link I used another server and now news-group works correctly.

The following link shows server status as green:

http://www.eternal-september.org/serverstatus.php?language=en

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I am a user of eternal-september.org news-groups in Thunder-bird . Things went on OK but today, I get connection time-out for my news-groups. Even eternal-september.test fails. How can I fix...

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I want to compile a project with GTK 2. I get this error :


/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpangox
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpangoxft
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpango
/usr/bin/ld: cannot...

I want to know on which drive these directories are placed , HDD or SSD ? Is it possible to select the default drive during installation ?



Suppose I want to place some music/various files on...

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If I install Ubuntu on a laptop with both HDD and SSD , can I access the both drives easily using a file manager like Files(Nautilus) ?

Where would be "Home" , "Desktop" , ... , be located...

I roughly remember I created a bootable usb flash memory 18.04 and upgraded my 16.04 installation because the laptop had sound problems. If according to this thread, every time I have to see a grub...

cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name...

I have partition1, partition2, partition3 called devices:

/dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3

first and second are about 500MB, third has 999GB size.

df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 787M 1.9M 785M 1% /run...

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I had Ubuntu 16.04 and a boot partition. After upgrade to 18.04 , kernels seem to be placed in the "bigger volume". How can I go back to UEFI in the previous drive ?

How can I change installation, keeping my HD intact ?

I did this, but grub menu was seen again.

It still happenes, BUMP.

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
# info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'
...

Hi,

I use Ubuntu 18.04 fully updated. After a few days ago, each time I turn on this laptop, I see Grub boot menu. What can I do ?

The link that you posted, does not load in my Firefox.

newsgroup server is:

news.eternal-september.org

Second problem is Firefox.

At times I can access these, at times not.