Plasma update?

[Bret Busby]

On 21/12/2022 03:14, rikona wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:04:48 +0100
> Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 05:00, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>>
>>> As I said in my original email, this was a POPUP WINDOW with the
>>> following, between the "s, in the POPUP WINDOW:
>>
>> That doesn't really answer the question, but if you don't know what
>> program it was, that is OK. Don't obsess over it.
> 
> The window popped up by itself, not by anything I did, so I had no idea
> why it was there. I could close it, but in a while it would pop up
> again. Reminded me of the snap popup behavior I saw earlier. Is there a
> way I could tell what program caused it?
> 
> Interestingly, after I DID click on 'update', which was a complete
> failure, the popup has not come back. So it looks like SOME pgm thinks
> I actually DID an update. :-)
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Kubuntu is an OS. It's one thing.
>>
>> You seem to think it's 2 things: that it's one thing, Ubuntu, wedged
>> in with another thing, KDE. It's not. It's a whole.
>>
>> Even if you installed ordinary GNOME Ubuntu and then installed KDE,
>> it's still a whole. All software that comes from the Ubuntu
>> repositories is part of Ubuntu. It's one integral unit.
>>
>> When you update it, you update all of it, in one go.
> 
> OK - I finally get it. Thanks. Part of the confusion was the large
> number of 'failure' descriptions I saw on the net, where the fix was a
> complete reinstall. Or, install Ubuntu and then add the KDE desktop.
> 
> <snip a great food-based description> :-)
> 
>> But the KDE bit goes bad faster than the text-only bits and you need
>> to use that up and replace it.
> 
> Need to do it soon before the milk becomes buttermilk. :-))
> 
>> If you have Kubuntu and you update Kubuntu you update *all of
>> Kubuntu*.
> 
> OK - I'm assuming it does not update other software, such as Pale Moon, Claws mail, etc.
> 
You should have the repository for Pale Moon, in your
/etc/apt/sources.list
(that should have been done, when you installed it)
so that it gets updated/upgraded whenever you run
apt update && apt full-upgrade -y
and Claws Mail should be updated/upgraded as part of the system.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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