Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread Ben Koenig
The downloads page for virtualbox has 2 different install methods. 1) Manually by downloading a single .deb file ( this uses dpkg, the debian package manager) 2) apt integration, as a third party repo. Running 'apt-get install' will essentially download and verify a package using apt, then install

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread Nat Taylor
sometimes a sudo apt-get -f install helps (not sure if you can just use apt, like: sudo apt -f install ) On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: > > Yes, it's not called google-earth pro. Also, google-earth does not change >> > > Oops!

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Rich Shepard wrote: Yes, it's not called google-earth pro. Also, google-earth does not change Oops! That should be 'now' not 'not.' Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 28 Feb 2018, Rigel Hope wrote: For GE, it looks like the Desktop version is "Pro" now, and the standard version is a chrome app. For the Pro download there is a new ToS agreement dated Jan 31 of this year. That might be part of your issue? Yes, it's not called google-earth pro. Also,

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread Rigel Hope
per the VB website (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads), see "What to do when experiencing *The following signatures were invalid*..." I would say you might want to reinstall the repo, apt clean, and then apt update again, but some years back I wound up in apt-get hell when dealing wi

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 21:50:26 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >> I have also been having issues with Update Manager lately, similar to >> what Dick reports, including failing to find the internet. Because of >> the problems, which I assume are bugs, I don't even try Update >> Manager anymore. When I wan

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:02:38 -0800 Dick Steffens dijo: >Thanks for the apt lesson. +1! That was very informative. Now I wonder if that might be why I have better luck with Synaptic than with Update Manager. Maybe Synaptic refreshes the cache when being launched and Update Manager does not?

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

2018-02-28 Thread Dick Steffens
On 02/27/2018 10:42 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: Since we don't know which file is the problem, we need to get rid of all of them. There is no harm in keeping them just in case, so create a clean folder in your home dir, and move everything you see in /var/cache/apt/ to that folder. Make sure you leave