Hello all,
I switched from Linux Mint to Linux Lite OS due to the fact Mint administrators did not respect their users on their own message board. I am loving Linux Lite OS RC1. I installed it and have not encountered a single error to date. I am very impressed by the updating process and the flexibility of the OS. All in all, I give the name of Linux Lite OS to anyone looking to switch linux distros. 

Macbook Aluminium (Unibody) Late 2008 user here. Always wanted to try Linux Lite, love it. But always had troubles installing because of the whole UEFI thing. Tried 5.0 and BOOM. Smooth as butter installation not 1 single issue! <3. and boy my laptop feels fast as hell right now. . Got it looking exactly how I wanted with ease.



Peace.

Hi,
I've been on here before requesting a UEFI boot for the new upcoming LTS 5.0 linux lite. You say the trial Linux lite 5.0 RC1 has a UEFI boot. I just downloaded it on a usb to try it out on my Acer Chromebook 15 CB5-571 that I had changed its bios firmware to clean install linux to. I have downloaded Linux Lite UEFI 4.2 and updated to 4.8 on my Chromebook. It is working well. I can't get this new trial Linux Lite 5.0 RC1 to boot. It just goes to "grub" screen saying something about tabbing to find commands. I can put the usb in another computer and see the files of the download. Is there something I'm supposed to do to make the UEFI boot work? Kind of a dummy here. Karen

I have a fresh install of LL4.8 with all updates and am trying to access my samba shares on my asustor NAS.

When I type in smb://192.168.1.xx for the samba share in thunar I get the message "Failed to Open File System"

When Attempting to update apt, I get the following error.

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
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.

============ Log ===========

Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com xenial InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:7 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite citrine InRelease [2,107 B]
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [913 kB]
Err:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages
  Hash Sum mismatch
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main Translation-en [429 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted i386 Packages [7,580 B]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted Translation-en [2,272 B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [721 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [333 kB]
Fetched 1,035 kB in 4s (243 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
E: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/x...a5edcc6ae5  Hash Sum mismatch
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Howdy Folks. Relatively new user of Linux Lite here. I am attempting to make a custom interpretation of conky, and decided to download some free fonts to make it my own.

64-bit Linux Lite 4.8, 18 hour old Installation
NUC7i3DNKE
m.2SSD / Single Partition Linux Install

I installed everything by default from the USB installation. After squaring away some simple mechanics for my use of this installation (Bluetooth, docking bay, Google integration), I started to play with conky, and install a couple of fonts.

The first font that I installed was Initial.ttf ... I downloaded it to my Download directory. Unzipped its Archive, Right clicked the font itself, and Opened it in "Fonts" and then Clicked Install in the header bar.

I rebuilt the font cache using fc-cache -f -v 
I opened the widget file in the conky-lite directory and changed the fields which I wanted a different font to Initial. CTRL+S, and it worked like a charm.

I downloaded another font, installed it the same way - twenty-one.ttf and a third font, the amazing grace.ttf  -- fc-cache -f -v and then adjusted the widget file in leafpad again. CTRL+S, and it did NOT work like a charm.

It reverted back to the original font I had started with before using Initial.ttf

I tried to manually bring the font from the download directory which I had it in at Install over to the directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/litefonts and then fc-cache -f -v  which it ran succesfully, but STILL is not reflecting the new font in the conky-lite widget.


Is there something that I skipped ? Is there a way to uninstall the fonts, and try installing them again?

Your knowledge, advice, and patience is highly appreciated.

Thank you,

Nick Shades

**edit: 8:17pm PST 4/25/2020 -- I decided to do a hard reset, and the fonts seem to work, now. specifically, "the amazing grace" which I installed last. Not sure why it did not work with the rebuild of the font cache. I am going to try the other font which I was interested in first and come back to this thread.

**edit: 9:28m PST 4/25/2020 -- Played with the other fonts I was interested in using - "twenty-one.ttf" and it would not load, despite being installed. I rebuilt the font cache as listed above, this time with sudo as well , and it did not work after rebuilding the cache. Is there another variable to the rebuilding of the cache string which I should use? It seems to me that rebuilding the cache should work in absence of a reset every time, after all, thats why we use Linux, right?

Is there a way to rebuild the font cache without resetting, and with a string different than fc-cache ?



**Edit: 9:52pm  -- THis is very, very strange. I can open LibreOffice and use any of the fonts which I have installed without a problem, but I cannot get several of them to load into the widget for conky.

If I can use a font that is installed in LibreOffice without any problem, but I cannot get it to load into Conky, is it named something different? is there something I should do differently?

I am going to attempt to add some screenshots of what is going on.

** Edit: 10:06pm -- added screenshots

Pardon me for my senility
Sometime time ago I used a release of some linux product that allowed me to disable the icon from a launcher and just use the words themselves.
I am looking as to what desktop that was?

By way of explanation.  Now that I am senile I can no longer look at an Icon and associate it with something physical.  That includes colors and other things that require cognitive skills.
Thanks for any help you can give, this maybe the last stop before god old "PCdos" where I started .

I have not done anything with system settings. Just browsing and copying data. But now USB and SD cards are read only. How do I fix this?