<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Liam,</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 5 Feb 2025 at 14:39, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Well, that's what *I* do. I am not asserting that I am a guru of this <br>
stuff. I suppose if you're about to add a package you could ensure it <br>
doesn't waste time removing stuff you then need to add back by doing:<br>
<br>
apt update<br>
apt full-upgrade -y<br>
apt install $WHATEVER<br>
apt autoremove<br></blockquote><div>OK. Thanks for that. <br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> My only update disaster occurred on upgrading a system from Ubuntu 22.04.x<br>
> to Ubuntu 24.04.1 when I chose to let the system ("Software Updater" aka<br>
> update-manager) uninstall obsolete packages.<br>
<br>
Oh my. Nasty.<br>
<br>
> Not sure what, if anything,<br>
> went wrong. I took the opportunity to move that system to Xubuntu because<br>
> it only has 4GiB RAM.<br>
<br>
What did you switch from, and how?<br></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">I was updating from Ubuntu 22.04.5 x86_64 to 24.04.1.</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">I used the "Software Updater" tool (command: update-manager) to do the update.</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">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...</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">HTH,</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container">Ian</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://github.com/ian-bruntlett/TECH-Manuals/blob/main/tm-free-software.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/ian-bruntlett/TECH-Manuals/blob/main/tm-free-software.md</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>