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

[MR]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2025, 07:30 Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>

Personally, I use orakular for most PDF functions on Ubuntu. Way better
than evince, IMNSHO

MRZ
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