> Linux is eays, everything is a file. It are the specifics which make it hard, > particularly configuration.
Right. At the moment, there is no automatized process to get the Debian/Ubuntu distribution updates automatized. > I think my issue with the Preferences panel may come from running the most > recent basex and it overwriting configuration files since it writes a message > to screen saying it overwrites the configuration file. Thanks for the insight. If you want to stick with the old version of BaseX, you can delete the .basexgui file (which includes the GUI configuration) to resolve the issue.