Ubuntu and exFAT

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2018, Bret Busby wrote:

> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 02:27:50
> From: Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
>     <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu and exFAT
> 
> On 03/09/2018, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> hi,
>> Am Montag, den 03.09.2018, 21:59 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> A new SSD has as its default, exFAT.
>>>
>>> I have seen that, to mount and use exFAT, in Ubuntu Linux, the
>>> command
>>> needs to be ran;
>>> sudo apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
>>>
>>> I am wondering whether the fuse stuff to enable exFAT rw access, is
>>> automatically included in Ubuntu 18.04, or also needs to be manually
>>> added in 18.04
>>>
>> exfat is patent encumbered ... so you cant ship/distribute it by
>> default (similar to the original mp3 codecs from fraunhofer back in the
>> days) on an iso.
>>
>> ciao
>> 	oli
>
> Hello.
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> However, ...
>
> An interesting observation - on the system on which I tried first to
> install the two packages, from the response, it appears to me, that
> the two exFAT packages were already installed.
>

"
bret at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:~$ uname -a
Linux bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE 4.4.0-133-generic #159-Ubuntu SMP Fri 
Aug 10 07:31:43 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
...
bret at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:~$ sudo apt install exfat-fuse 
exfat-utils
sudo: unable to resolve host bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE
[sudo] password for bret:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
exfat-fuse is already the newest version (1.2.3-1).
exfat-utils is already the newest version (1.2.3-1).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 8 not to upgrade.
bret at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:~$
"

That, to me, appears to indicate that the pacakages were already 
installed (by default?).

Whilst the uname command response does not show it, the version of 
UbuntuMATE is 16.04.x


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Bret Busby
Armadale
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