I am installing into the 2 partitions which previously held LLOS 4.8.  The partitions were / and /home.  The boot loader was on partition /.  This was on an external USB HDD that had EXT4 partitions set up for this.  This worked perfectly when booted.  I do have an NTFS partition also on the same USB drive and these coexisted with no issues.

When doing the LLOS 5 install I chose the option "something else" and set the 2 partitions up the same as the previous install of LLOS 4.8.  I set the boot loader to install on the / partition.  Both times the install seemed to go without a hitch.  Both times when I tried to boot, I got an error that it could not find the necessary boot files.  It then went into boot rescue and did nothing for several minutes. 

Once it said I would have to install Grub manually.  Tried doing that while back in the live session, but it said it could not find the device.

I did do a timeshift of LLOS 4.8, but not sure it will work since the drive letters have changed from the new install attempts.

The / partition is 35 GN and the /home partition is 37 GB.

Any suggestions?  I used Etcher to do the live USB and it seems to work fine.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/insta...stallguide

Downloaded Etcher, moved to 4Gb USB pendrive
Downloaded Latest version of Linux Lite.
Run Etcher. Clicked on Linux Lite Etcher did it stuff and finished.
Moved Pen drive to destination PC. Already has a versionn of Linux Cinnamon installed.
Started Destination PC
Icon on desktop called Lonux Lite 5.0
Clicked on that, as per the instructions. This opened a file.
9 Directorys (or whatever people are calling these no-a-days) listed.
boot, casper, dists, EFI, install, isolinux, pool, preseed, disk plus three txt files, md5sum.txt, README.diskdefines, ubuntu

What am I supposed to do?

The instructions clearly say, double click on  Install Linux Lite icon on the desktop.

This icon isn't there!

I don't know what to do. Can anyone please say in simple english, what I am supposed to do?

Thank you.

I went to the package manager and found two backup apps marked them for install then hit apply. but if they got installed i cant find them to test them. also if you don't mind me using one post for two questions, i need a simple file backup to back up my windows drive. just a all file copy and compress type of thing. any sugestions will help.

I am new and thought I might start here since You all will be seeing a lot of posts from me till i learn. So hello and god bless.

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Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

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Ign:1 cdrom://Linux Lite 5.0 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Ign:2 cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Err:3 cdrom://Linux Lite 5.0 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err:4 cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:6 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite emerald InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux Lite 5.0 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.

I had an annoying problem of the " internet icon" had gone missing and was not to be found by me. I posted a repair question and Jerry was kind enough to respond and fix the problem.
I do appreciate the time and effort I took from his busy day to help me out.
The support here on the forums is one of the best on the WWW.

Created a new partition from space that I had from the Home partition.  I plan to use this for Timeshift and other backup.  For some unknown reason the partition says it is owned by Root and I cannot open it or change permissions.  What do I need to do so I can access this?  It now has no files in it. 

Just installed Linux lite 5.xx

Tried to install updates and got the following error mesages

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 3596 (apt-get)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

Any help appreciated

AK

I need help with this one, I've looked around on the net and can't find any solutions

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Hit:1 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite emerald InRelease
Hit:2 https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:5 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease [111 kB]
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/appgrid/stable/ubuntu focal InRelease
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [107 kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease [98.3 kB]
Ign:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/gcc-fo...tro/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/stable/ubuntu focal InRelease
Err:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/gcc-fo...tro/ubuntu focal Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.83 80]
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/libretro/gcc-for-libretro/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.

Hello All

I like to suggest as an option for OBS the SimpleScreenRecorder,
what is easier to use, for users didn't take a lot recordings and
I thinkl it's aĺso more light weight.







Another ting I like to suggest is a list where software colud listed or suggested
and LL users could rate for it if they like that software to be in LL Software.
I think then the needs could be more specified.

Greetings

Nanayaw