So I want to address this now, as I really wanted to upgrade all my machines to LL 3.8. However I have a single machine running LL 3.6 that just always tells me it's up to date and it's been doing that for months (despite other machines finding and install updates regularly). Currently when I try to upgrade that machine to LL 3.8, I get a message stating I already have the latest version. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? I'm not a Linux expert, but I haven't really changed the system much, so I'm a bit befuddled as to why this is all happening.

I just set up the desktop on a v3.8 install, and I was wondering if there is a way to tweak individual elements on the tak bar.  I selected a primarily red theme, and the sected workplace switcher and the window button for the program with focus is a "baby blue" which looks lousy against the red background.  Is there any way I can tweak these elements, or do I have to find an theme with the colors I want.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Hi folks

I'm an old fart that has been around computers since the mid 1980s. No expert but I can do some basic stuff.  Used Windows since version 2, DOS since 3 and CP/M.

I started using Linux around 2001 thanks to Windows Millennium! Can't remember the distro. Moved to dual boot with Lindows / Linspire around 2002. I loved that distro and their vision. Left Linux when Windows 7 came out and  I quite like Windows 10.

We now have some old laptops. I run LL on an Acer One 522 to play downloads on the TV with VLC. It works really well.


Great setup you guys have here. Fabulous documentation.

First off, sorry for the long post, feel a need to rant and also heap some praise. 
Have spent the last few days exploring various Linux distro's in a end view to install on my living room multimedia PC. It runs Windows 7 x64, but since the meltdown and spectre debacle Windows updates have twice foobarred the OS, the first to a point where it wouldn't boot at all and the second time sent it haywire! Both times required a system restore to return it to a working state, and to tell it to ignore a couple of updates so they didn't install again.
It also happened at a most inconvenient time both times, first time was when I wanted to watch a video and second time when I booted it up to play some music while I got on with other things.
Hence deciding to put Linux on there on a second drive so I always have a choice to boot in to either OS, and I'm not left with a non bootable machine the next time I want to stick some music on to listen to.
It is a pretty old machine except for the case, I purchased a new ATX cube case to build it up in a couple years back, it does look quite nice. The motherboard is a Asus socket AM2 (I was given by a friend who had upgraded) fitted with a AMD Phenom 2.2Ghz quad core CPU (bought off eBay for £5) and 8Gb of Ram, the chipset is Nvidia Nforce 4, that proves how old it is. I also put my old AMD Radeon HD4870 in there along with a Asus Xonar D2X 7.1 PCI-E sound card.
The first distro I downloaded and tried was Manjaro, it installed no problem and everything worked, it also had access to all the latest software. BUT, I don't know what it was for sure but I didn't like it much, it's possibly because I installed the KDE version, I loved KDE back in the 3.xx days but not since. I just couldn't get a feel for it so I continued looking.
    Second was SolydX, again everything worked but it felt quite slow and I moved on after 10 minutes.
I then downloaded and tried Gecko Linux. Well, better description would be tried to try Gecko Linux but it wouldn't even boot the ISO, just continually threw a kernel panic at the Grub boot menu so I moved on.
Grabbed MX-17 and gave it a try, everything worked but it has the most stupid task bar invented by man! Whoever came up with that idea needs to go to UI school, horrible. After faffing around trying to re-configure it for 5 minutes I concluded it would be quicker to download and try something else, so I did.
Next up was PCLinuxOS, everything worked and I know a lot of folk love it but I didn't! Spent half an hour with it but wasn't impressed so ditched it.
Next up was Bodhi Linux. I already have this installed on a PC I have in the bedroom, I have also used it for several years, since the Bodhi 2.0 days on various machines. I do like Bodhi and don't really have anything negative to say about it, but it's not suited to all tasks and I found this was one of them.
Finally I downloaded the 3.8 version of Linux Lite, (already have the 3.6 release but thought I'd grab the latest), and put that on there. Excellent! Everything worked as was expected and it reminded me why I choose Linux Lite in the first place. It just works, it's intuitive, it has sensible defaults, and it's a solid base to build upon and make what you want from it.
I still have to upgrade my main PC to 3.8, that's a job for later this week I think.

Great job guys, my living room multimedia PC is rocking and shaking the walls again!


Again, sorry about the long post just to say thanks. Another sleepless night and needed the distraction!  ;D

I clicked Menu / Install Updates and waited a few minutes.  I then got an error message saying, "Your computer is not connected to the internet - Linux Lite cannot check for updates.  Please check your internet connection and try again."

I was on the internet, because I had Facebook open in a browser window.  And I can get to any website I try.

As a workaround, I checked for updates via the terminal window.  It appears that I was successful, but I'm not sure.  Below is what was in my terminal window.  Does it look like I was successful?  And did the updates install, or just download?

Thanks.

Jim

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jim@Jim-LinuxLite:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for jim:
Hit:1 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite citrine InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                   
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com xenial InRelease                           
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB] 
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease       
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]   
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed InRelease [253 kB] 
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB] 
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease       
Fetched 560 kB in 2s (263 kB/s)                                               
Reading package lists... Done
jim@Jim-LinuxLite:~$

Hi All

I just upgraded to Linux Lite v3.8, and I can't get Wireshark to install. 

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libwireshark8 : Depends: libsmi2ldbl (>= 0.4.5+dfsg0) but it is not installed

I also ran [tt]apt-get -f install[/tt] but it didn't help

I've included the [tt]apt-get install[/tt] &  [tt]apt-get -f install[/tt] run in case it provides any useful information.

Any suggestions/assistance much appreciated. 

Output from [tt]apt-get install wireshark[/tt]

Now I'm trying to download My Weather Indicator in the terminal, using the following instructions:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator

And here's what I get:

arbor@arbor-U-100:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
[sudo] password for arbor:
sudo apt-get updat Applications from atareao
More info: https://launchpad.net/~atareao/+archive/ubuntu/atareao
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
e
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpyaqtg19r/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpyaqtg19r/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 36FD5529 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpyaqtg19r/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 36FD5529: public key "Launchpad PPA for atareao" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK
arbor@arbor-U-100:~$ sudo apt-get install my-weather-indicator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree     
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package my-weather-indicator
arbor@arbor-U-100:~$ ^C
arbor@arbor-U-100:~$

so I will try to make this as short as possible and concise.  This computer (Toshiba Satellite L750 was donated to me which was running Win 10). I wiped it using DBAN then loaded LL 3.4  All seemed to be running fine then it starting acting really weird just as I was placing it with a youth.  We shut it down then re-booted and got the following screen message:

*Linux Lite GNU/Linux
Advanced options for Linux Lite GNU/Linux
Memory test (memtest 86+)
Memory test (memtest 86+, serial console 115200)

I tried simply clicking on the the top line and this is the message I got (No, it did not go into LL 3.4):

BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu) bulit-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help" for a list of built-in commands.

(initramfs) _

I then decided to re-install LL 3.4 and did so.  I loaded it and seemed to be working fine including WiFi.  I made a system report and added it to the LL hardware database (Done 02/17/2018 07:05).

I then shut it down, pulled it up again and selected to update it.  It got a list of updates, I then clicked install and at the end I got a message saying that it could not install the updates. I shut it down and then this morning thought I would give the updates a try again and this time IF it didn't update look at log and try to save it to ask.  No go.  What I got was initially the solitary feather logo then it showed the SECOND screen message - the one starting with BusyBox... (as stated above, the Windows OS has been completely wiped).

BTW I did start a memtest 86+ at the beginning of all this as I'm wondering if there is something wrong with the computer (hard drive..?) and while it only ran for about 2 hours and was working on the 3rd pass I then exited out of the memtest despite having read that 5-8 passes minimum is recommended (No errors picked up) to then reload LL3.4

I have looked up the busy box message and it says to do the following:
type exit after the (initramfs) then the use the following:
(initramfs) fsck /dev/sda1

I am willing to try the above - however:
1) reading further down this article in askubuntu.com it seems that it isn't always sda1 that is used but sometimes sda5 or sda8...How does one know or decide what to enter.
2) I couldn't tell from the article (maybe because this is over my head) whether doing the above is a permanent fix or whether I'd have to do the above each time I booted up..?

Any advice or should I simply put this laptop on the shelf for "parts"?

Hello, today i went and bought a new Epson XP-245 printer and have connected it to the computer via a USB cable but can`t print anything. The copy works perfectly, just not print and scan.

Any help would be grateful.

aussie1.

hi, I'm new here as in the linux world. I installed latest version of Lite (32bits) from an usb, on my dell inspiron 1012 netbook(old and slow netbook that I think could revive with this OS)  without any problem.  After the instalation finished I quit the usb and Lite started as expected even with the wifi controller installed fine (that could have bring problems as I read on different website I checked before installing the OS). Then I applied the latest update just fine and when the update processes finish Lite ask me to restart the netbook. I did that and after that the OS stays stack in the Lite log and I couldn't log into the system again.  I do not see any message, when restarting no matter which option choose from the lite boot menu,  the OS does not start as expected.  How can I check what is falling in order to search for a proper solution?  Which keys should I press or menus should I choose  to see a log or some message?

Thanks for any help,
Juan from