Ubuntu Server 24.04.1 LTS fresh install errors in apt install and upgrade

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Liam,

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 14:39, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, that's what *I* do. I am not asserting that I am a guru of this
> stuff. I suppose if you're about to add a package you could ensure it
> doesn't waste time removing stuff you then need to add back by doing:
>
> apt update
> apt full-upgrade -y
> apt install $WHATEVER
> apt autoremove
>
OK. Thanks for that.

> My only update disaster occurred on upgrading a system from Ubuntu 22.04.x
> > to Ubuntu 24.04.1 when I chose to let the system ("Software Updater" aka
> > update-manager) uninstall obsolete packages.
>
> Oh my. Nasty.
>
> >  Not sure what, if anything,
> > went wrong. I took the opportunity to move that system to Xubuntu because
> > it only has 4GiB RAM.
>
> What did you switch from, and how?
>
I was updating from Ubuntu 22.04.5 x86_64 to 24.04.1.

I used the "Software Updater" tool (command: update-manager) to do the
update.

The resulting Xubuntu install is... quirky compared to Ubuntu. It was
reporting that the "Panel" had crashed and would I like to report it? I did
some more updates today and the crash reports seem to have gone away. I
tried the Evince PDF viewer (as a snap, on Xubuntu) and it insisted on
printing a landscape diagram as portrait, truncating the diagram. I've
tried printing the diagram from Ubuntu and it prints as normal. Something
is definitely different between Ubuntu and Xubuntu...

HTH,


Ian

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