I would like to suggest that the reason the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 failed was because the upgrade path is not yet open and will not be open until 6 months after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has been...
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I would like to suggest that the reason the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 failed was because the upgrade path is not yet open and will not be open until 6 months after Ubuntu 24.04 LTS has been...
As a test, open a terminal and run
sudo update-grub
Watch the printout. Does it show Windows 7 as a boot option?
Regards
I shall assume that Windows is already on the machine; and you know how to download and burn to a USB memory stick Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ISO image. I also assume that you know how to boot from the USB...
This link gives a powerful reason not to force an upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS at the moment.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/dont-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-yet
Regards
What is the code name of 24.10? Two words beginning with the letter O. In the past I have changed the addresses in the sources.list file as soon as I have known the new code name. For a few days -...
Have you tried entering the BIOS/UEFI settings utility and disabling the hardware that you think is faulty? I do not think that those messages are coming from the Grub bootloader. The motherboard...
I like to run the development version and set it up the way I like to see how things work out before I upgrade. It was my original intention to switch from 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS but a Windows app...
People also grow old and reach end of life support. Names that I saw regularly when I first started reading this forum in 2007 are no longer with us on the forum and I suspect on the planet. I myself...
I am sorry that I have not replied sooner. I do not use the internet every day. I also had breakage on the Ubuntu 20.04.6 install caused by my failure to pay attention to what I was doing.
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The GUI utility Software Updater should run apt update; apt upgrade; apt autoremove and snap refresh.
Regards
I may be wrong about this but it is my understanding that the Android developers do not update devices with Android as the OS. The responsibility for upgrading a version of Android to a newer one...
I updated the 24.04 development version on 08 April. Lots of packages were held back but many packages we were updated. On rebooting I got a white screen with this message:
The only thing that...
What does that mean?
a) When you boot the computer you get an error message saying no operating system found.
or
b) When you enter the BIOS/UEFI settings utility and open the boot manager...
Try
A folder/directory off of the root directory
Regards
Where do you have the empty/unallocated space? Is it between sda1 and sda2? Or is it after sda5?
We are trying to explain that sda5 is inside sda2 and takes up all the space in sda2. So, you must...
May I say something? Have you installed Ubuntu on the SSD? If you have not the UEFI will not recognise the SSD as having an OS on it.
I am test installing 24.04 on to an external SATA drive in an...
You must mean 22.04.4 because 24.04.0 will not be released until about the third week of April 2024. The 24.04.4 release does not at the moment have a release date.
Are you a time traveller by any...
The answer must be "NO"
The Linux bootloader (Grub) loads the operating system which may be Ubuntu or some other operating system. Therefore, Ubuntu is not in control of the boot process. Grub is...
Linux is designed to require a root or administrator account with password and separate additional user accounts with limited privileges. Ubuntu developers have chosen to do things differently...
Regarding scene 2 - Ubuntu desktop does not know about Ubuntu server on partition #1 of HDD #2.
Solution: Load into Ubuntu desktop and in a terminal run
sudo update-grub
Watch the printout...
Is this version of Ubuntu actually Ubuntu Touch? It is a version of Ubuntu developed for mobile devices abut discontinued by Ubuntu developers. Development of Ubuntu Touch has been taken over by a...
I do not know. I think that the live system has a user name of ubuntu and a password of ubuntu or in your case mythtv and mythtv.
Have your tried using capital letters? Or, adding some numbers?
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From my experience, what breaks the system is the removal of obsolete packages. In the development version the obsolete packages would normally be removed as their replacements are installed.
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I was not sure if your minimal install was command line only. If we have a desktop user interface and can run Software Updater then snap packaged applications are indeed automatically updated as @VMC...
What version of Ubuntu are you using? And how did you get that minimal install? How did you install Firefox?
If you used this command
sudo apt install firefox
then Firefox was installed...