My experience upgrading is as follows: This morning one of our Xubuntu 22.04 workstations at Computer Recycling prompted us to upgrade to 24.04 (the 24.04.1 point release came out August 30th). Since the machine isn't mission critical I decided to try the upgrade to see how painful it might be.
The machine didn't have any PPAs (Personal Package Archives), or other sources, but did have snaps for antsy-alien-attack-pico (a pico-8 shoot 'em up by Martin Wimpress/Ubuntu Mate), blender (3d modeling), freac (a great little audio cd-ripping program), krita (paint), and the office 365 webapps, in addition to the Firefox and Chromium snaps 22.04 came with. Only 1 program was listed as unsupported (Cheese, we install this webcam program as an extra on all machines so we can test out webcams on laptops). Oddly, after the install cheese was still installed on the system, and from what I can tell they didn't switch to a snap, it's still from the ubuntu universe repository. The update went pretty uneventful. There was a bit of prompting for some of the extra packages we had installed (ms truetype fonts). On reboot I noticed an exclamation mark in the top right corner, but no crashing (the machine is a custom system with a Z270X-UD3 motherboard, 7th gen i7-7700K, 16GB, and an SSD). The issue was some broken dependencies for a kernel. Right clicking gave some instructions for fixing the issue. Ultimately a sudo apt --fix-broken install -y fixed that issue. I also noticed the "software" centre was missing, and the upgrade had not replaced it with the snap store (if you do a fresh install of 24.04 you will get the snap store). Instead, synaptic and gdebi were present. Thunderbird got replaced with a snap, but afaik this is the only program that we didn't install that got a snap replacement (FF and Chromium were snaps in 22.04). Snaps are still underpinning 24.04.1. It looks like I could just install the snap store with sudo snap install snap-store. On other machines where we've installed 24.04.1 we've noticed that the snap store is a lot faster than Gnome software - faster starting, faster populating, and faster searching. With this point release I noticed that they seemed to have added a differentiation between snaps and apt packages (before the point release it just seemed to be all snaps). I also just finished running sudo snap install snap-store and notice that the right and left arrows for images seem to be broken images. This is it for now. Since we have a slew of machines to update I'm happy to report on other issues. Cheers, Charles On Mon, 2 Sept 2024 at 16:51, Jeffery Small <[email protected]> wrote: > > I had some very serious problems when upgrading from 20.04 to 22.04 and > just wanted to ask here if people who have now upgraded to 24.04.1 have > seen any significant problems or whether things went smoothly? Any > specific things to watch out for with the update? > > Thanks. > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users -- Charles Mastodon: @[email protected] -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
