Dear Walter, Thanks for the reply. yes, I do want exactly
a 16.04 Lubuntu update. I goto Preferences> Software & Updates, and
I verify that "notify" me of a new LTS Ubuntu version" is checked.
[Maybe I have Lubuntu installed "on top of" a plain Ubuntu system
("trusty" - whichever version that is.] Then I goto
Preferences> Software Updater, and it automatically
starts checking the US repository for updates to my packages.
I eventually get offered Firefox, and the non-existent flash-installer
program. I DO NOT get offered "update to Lubuntu 6.04"!
You suggest I can use "do-release-upgrade" -- that
must be part of an apt-get command, right?
Can you tell me what the full command is I should type?
Thanks, gary knott, [email protected]
PS, As long as I'm asking questions about Lubuntu,
Can anyone tell me how to get an icon on my LXDE desktop that
"points" to a binary excutable file I have (called mlab).
These icon are called "shortcuts" in LXDE (and in Windows)
They actually point to a little file xxx.desktop
in one of the Desktop directories - there is
one for each user, and seem to be others scattered around on the disk.
I tried to set-up such a file for my program mlab, copying from
the icon for emacs. But here is the catch:
I need my program to be run in a terminal window.
Thus, I have the "run in terminal" option set to 'yes', and I
specify where my executable is. But when I double-click ithe icon , I get
the
terminal window, but I DO NOT get my program run within it.
Any tips as to how to get this right? I can't find any documentation
that I can follow about LXDE *.desktop files - where they should
go, what protections they must have, who must own them,
and other gotchas. Any pointers to documentation would be appreciated.
.
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 3:06 PM Walter Lapchynski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 09:12:41AM -0700, Aere Greenway wrote:
> > On 11/9/18 10:45 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 12:23:27AM -0500, Gary Knott wrote:
>
> > > > I don't get any offer from the update manager to update to 16.04
> > > > (i used to, but not now)
>
> LTS releases will not usually give you a new update notification until
> the first point release, but that was long ago for 16.04. It may be that
> you don't have it set up appropriately. In Preferences » Software &
> Updates, go to the Updates tab and look at the bottom. What does it say
> for "Notify me of a new Ubuntu Version?" If you have it set to "Never,"
> that's your problem. If you have it set to anything else and you're not
> getting updates, that deserves some further investigation. It should be
> consistent with the value of "Prompt" in
> /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades.
>
> > > > How do I update to Lubuntu
> > > > 16.04? (not do an overwrite install, but do an update.)
>
> `do-release-upgrade` should do it or System Tools » Software Updater.
>
> > > Why not 18.04?
> > My past experience says it only let's you go from one LTS release to the
> > very next-higher LTS release. If you want to go to the next one, you
> have
> > to do another upgrade.
>
> Actually, I think you're right about. Seems silly in one sense but
> sometimes there are changes that require the stepwise fashion.
>
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