Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-26 Thread Nat Taylor
sudo apt -f install helps sometimes On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 11:44 AM Tomas Kuchta wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 07:41 Dick Steffens wrote: > > > On 4/26/20 1:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > > For what it is worth it, dist-upgrade is used to upgrade your > > distribution > > > from 18.04.2 to

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020, 07:41 Dick Steffens wrote: > On 4/26/20 1:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: > > For what it is worth it, dist-upgrade is used to upgrade your > distribution > > from 18.04.2 to 18.04.3 to 20.04 to > > > > Update - refreshes your repository data. > > > > Upgrade -

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-26 Thread Dick Steffens
On 4/26/20 1:22 AM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: For what it is worth it, dist-upgrade is used to upgrade your distribution from 18.04.2 to 18.04.3 to 20.04 to Update - refreshes your repository data. Upgrade - upgrades your current distribution to the latest patches/versions. When you

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-26 Thread Tomas Kuchta
For what it is worth it, dist-upgrade is used to upgrade your distribution from 18.04.2 to 18.04.3 to 20.04 to Update - refreshes your repository data. Upgrade - upgrades your current distribution to the latest patches/versions. When you update+upgrade from command line, the GUI is

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-25 Thread Dick Steffens
On 4/25/20 4:58 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: Software updater does a few extra things, as you have noticed. You probably want to find out why it's failing and fix that since it's not running through the sequence of steps that we would expect. in the mean time, the following commands are sufficient to

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-25 Thread Ben Koenig
Software updater does a few extra things, as you have noticed. You probably want to find out why it's failing and fix that since it's not running through the sequence of steps that we would expect. in the mean time, the following commands are sufficient to update your system: $ sudo apt-get

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-25 Thread Dick Steffens
On 4/25/20 12:07 AM, Lou wrote: What a coincidence! A friend who is running Ubuntu 18.04 in his laptop also had the same problem. The update manager said that there is no Internet when there was a working Internet connection. So, I just opened the terminal for him, and typed  sudo apt update

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-25 Thread Lou
What a coincidence! A friend who is running Ubuntu 18.04 in his laptop also had the same problem. The update manager said that there is no Internet when there was a working Internet connection. So, I just opened the terminal for him, and typed  sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade and

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-24 Thread Dick Steffens
On 4/24/20 10:01 PM, Tomas Kuchta wrote: I would start on command line: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade And if you still have problems, post the errors you get. I did the above, and then ran Software Updater again. I got the same error message, Failed to download repository information, and

Re: [PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-24 Thread Tomas Kuchta
I would start on command line: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade And if you still have problems, post the errors you get. Tomas On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 21:57 Dick Steffens wrote: > When I run Software Updater on one of my Ubuntu 18.04 machines (ENU-1). > In April, 2018, I installed Ubuntu MATE

[PLUG] Xubuntu 18.04 -- Software Updater Problem

2020-04-24 Thread Dick Steffens
When I run Software Updater on one of my Ubuntu 18.04 machines (ENU-1). In April, 2018, I installed Ubuntu MATE 18.04. At some point, alas not documented, I switched to XFCE. In May, 2019, I installed Xubuntu 18.04 on my other desktop machine (ENU-2), and migrated to it for daily use. ENU-1