linux-firmware issue

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bret Busby wrote:
 
>Without knowing whether you do what I do, in that I apply selective 
>updates, rather than full system updates (I haven't updated firefox, 
[SNIP]
>the software), if you do not so apply selective updates, but,
>mandatorily apply full system updates, then, instead of using your
>Discover thing (that sounds like some Microsoft thing),

It describes itself as "An application explorer" and is used as an
update manager in the Kubuntu system tray.

>I suggest using  the proverbial sequence
>
>sudo -i
>apt update
>apt full-upgrade -y
>apt autoremove -y
>apt autoclean

Yep. I've got two similar sequences that I regularly use, with the
reason for two sequences being that if a reboot is required after the
first sequence is run, that happens before the second sequence is run.

>Of course, you might not regard that as appropriate for your 
>circumstances, and, some people may disagree with my suggestion,
>but, that is what I suggest.

It's fine and I do it daily. It's just that the GUI also checks for
updates automatically and shows up as an icon in my system
tray when there are any. When the icon shows up, I click it and use
Discover to grab the updates. That's how I happened to notice the
caution/warning.

>I do not, above, concatenate the command lines, using the "&&" 
>concatenation, because it does not work in my Linux Mint Mate.

Interesting. The && stops what comes after it from running if the
command preceding it fails, so maybe there was a failure when you ran
it. Have you tried it again since then?

Here are the two sequences I settled on after going back and forth
with others about what was recommended and would be useful, shown
here in the order that I run them in:

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade && sudo snap refresh

sudo apt autoremove --purge && sudo apt clean

I realize that at least one of them is redundant, but I tend to lean
towards overkill when there's a choice and there doesn't seem to be
any harm in it.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.