With all previous installs of Linux Lite (3.4 - 3. 8) there has been an option to erase disk and install Linux. That option is not available. I do not want Windows 10 at all. All videos I've looked at for LL4.0 install show that as an option. Do I have a bad installation media?

Hi all.
I have recently been having issues with booting my PC. I have been getting this error:

Hello,
can anyone tell me of a reputable public access ssh server ?
A few Chapters back in The Linux Command Line book -

pages 182-185 cover access, login, ls remote system to local system, tunneling (xload (or  yload)), scp and sftp.

More recent chapter -
page 209 covers tar piped from remote system to local system for a documents folder.

I wanted to try these things out rather than just read how they are done.
I do not wish to try setting up an ssh server as I'm just learning the very basics of it at the moment.
The server if any knows one, would need to be a little bit tolerant like not ban my ip address if I type a command wrong/typo or such.

Edit -
solved this, I will set up ssh server somewhere using one of my Raspberry Pi, so I can access it using my LL desktop from home.
I want to get to a specific chapter in the Linux Command Line book first before stopping, then I will spend the time on this as a small project until it is completed, and go back to the book afterwards.

Hello,

I wanted to add my apps to the menu and am stuck.
The Python scripts live in the home folder currently.Their desktop launchers live in a folder on the desktop named shortcuts, which was just a temporary choice as I didn't want them on the desktop, after adding to the panel it was too many icons for my liking.The desktop launcher icon I use is /usr/share/icons/Humanity/apps/24/application-community.svg
This meant I still had a folder on the desktop for the launchers.

After recent updates, unsure which exactly caused it, but I know 3 were Python updates.It added the 3 desktop launchers in to the menu directory named SD, and they functioned correctly.

I don't like this icon/directory, and had issues with it before with Etcher which lives in the downloads folder instead as I was unable to solve that.
In trying to put this in another menu directory I ended up messing up the first launcher, so deleted the other two, as two is not three, and the SD directory disappeared as there is nothing being used in it.

I added a new item in Main Menu Editing , tried several directories, it would not appear in the menu.
But if I create it in the SD folder it does appear in the menu.Whereas the Python icons are under the Development Directory, but the launcher will not appear or make this directory appear in the Menu.
The next part of the problem is when creating the launcher in the SD directory, the usual desktop icon when set appears in Main Menu Editor, but it will not appear in the Menu, instead it appears as a blank space, I know it is possible for this icon to appear in the menu directory as initially after the updates it used this icon on all 3 in the menu.
Not so important, but it might be better to have its own Menu directory so I can put these 3 and any future ones in the same place, in case there are any issues.
After the Etcher Saga, I have never tried editing the menu at all in any way.
After these updates it sort of planted a seed that it would be better in the Men as it means I wouldn't need to have a folder on my desktop for the launchers, as I usually have zero folders or launchers on the desktop.

I also want to make new icons at a later time by wrapping the flags around each of the above icon, Gimp cannot do it, it says in the text editor they are made in Inkscape, which I don't have installed and have never used but its another topic for later, if I get stuck on that.I think I installed it once maybe in LL series 2, but didn't use it.

According to QDirStat looking at / I have 10.7 gigs of stuff on my system disk, which is a 120 gig SSD. I realize that it doesn't actually give me 120 gigs - actually, my terminal tells me it's only 109.5 gigs. I can live with that - I'm used to the formatted disk being smaller than the advertised size.

So I have 109.5 gigs of disk here, with 10.7 gigs of files on it. Why, then, do I only have 83.6 gigs of free space? I deleted my Timeshift backup file, which was something like 7 or 8 gigs, but it seems like I never got the free space back. I checked, and there are no trash bins with files in them, and if there were, they should show up in the QDirStat program's listing.

By my math, there's something rather large that I can't find here.

The way I read it, Timeshift is supposed to make a first backup of my system, then each time after that it adds to it. That isn't what is happening; each time I try to use it, it creates another full backup. Where is the setting that changes this? I only have a 120 gig system disk and I can't afford to have a bunch of giant files taking up space on it. Each one is 9 gigs or so. This doesn't seem at all like a "system restore point" to me - rather, it's just a ton of system backups. And worryingly, it won't let me do them on my other disks, because they are not NTFS, they are FAT32.

I realize that you can go in and manually delete old backups via Timeshift, but I'd rather get it to do what I read about in the documentation, and which I thought it was going to do.

Also, after trying different filter options about what actually gets copied, I noticed that a backup with all the "include" options set isn't any bigger than with those set to "exclude". That really doesn't seem right.

does anyone know if the Logitech K-380 Bluetooth keyboard is compatible with Linux Lite?

I need a calendar/alarm program that will display an alert and I'm having trouble finding one that will allow me to set events up that repeat every two weeks (rather than on a specific date). I also need to have a couple of events on the 1st and 3rd of each month, but it seems like all of the calendars will do that, so the hangup is the biweekly reminder.

I don't want to mess with cron - I used to do that back in the days of the Amiga but I have no desire to go back to that, LOL.

I have been using LL for the last week as my main computer for internet access, general note taking, music organizing, and also to a lesser degree, practicing music. I am a long time Mac user who also has a Windows PC here that I do the real music production and graphics stuff on. I put LL on my old Windows desktop computer, which was made in 2009 and only has an e5300 in it; not very fast by today's standards. I actually got a much newer PC last month so I installed all my music stuff (man, I hate messing with Windows - I mean, I REALLY hate it) and then used this older one to replace my ancient Mac (2005) which has been my main computer for a heck of a long time. I've had Macs all the way back to System 7, if you know what that means.

Anyway, although I have had some hiccups (this is my first time using Linux seriously), I really enjoy using the computer with LL on it, especially for browsing. It is much faster feeling with this OS than it was with Windows 7, of course. In some ways I still prefer the Mac but Apple has changed so much since they made my old Mac G5s (and G4s, and G3s, and the others before that) that I won't ever buy another one. However, I must say that the Mac "window manager" (it's built in to the OS, and doesn't really have a name) is much more useful in some ways than anything I have seen in Linux yet - this is due to its ability to display a hierarchical view in a way that is totally unlike the way Linux does it. If you just want a window with icons in it, then Linux is just as good, or if you want a file list sorted by date, name, whatever, then Linux is also just as good. But all I have seen so far on the various Linuxes for hierarchical views is essentially a dropdown tree, which isn't very useful. So that's the big difference I see where the Mac OS is clearly better for me.

But I have to weigh that against all the other areas where Linux is as good or better than the Mac. I will get used to the lack of a hierarchical window structure like the one I was used to. I have found applications that do most of what I need, although of course sometimes I have to learn a new way of doing things. And best of all, I'm not using proprietary Mac stuff or (ugh) Windows stuff here. I would love it if I could transition totally to Linux, but at this point it's not possible because I need my $$$ collection of VST plugins for my sequencer (Reaper, which runs pretty well in Linux as a beta, BTW) on the Windows PC, and I need to be able to use Photoshop for all the graphics work I do. Gimp is not a satisfactory replacement, as capable as it is in many ways, if only because of all the third-party Photoshop plugins I have which are not available for Gimp.

We also put Lubuntu on my wife's old netbook which simply couldn't cope with the internet any more, Firefox has gotten so big. I wiped Windows XP and put Lubuntu on it and suddenly she can use Firefox again even though she only has 1G ram on the little netbook. I probably would be using Lubuntu myself now except that I had some things which just didn't seem to work right with it (couldn't get Libre Office to run at all on any of three computers under Lubuntu, for example), so I tried Linux Lite and it just seemed to work.

So thanks to those of you who have helped me with my questions; I appreciate the assistance, and I'm sure I'll be asking them for some time to come. 

Wanted to install the statistics program R see here: https://ftp.fau.de/cran/

outcome

no error message; icon available in menu, nothing happens when clicked, no error message, program r can be found in the USR folder, as well as in the synaptic package manager, there you can see that about 400 packages of r were not installed, but only a few

question

How can I get the program R to run?

How do I install programs in LITE that are not in the package manager?