Is there an easy way to get rid of splash screen during boot/shutdown?

I would rather see messages scroll by so I can tell if something useful is happening or if the system has hung somewhere during the boot process. 

Thanks in advance.

I've duplicated the answer below so you don't need to read everything:

Quote:Full Credit to supergamer-with thanks to TheDead/Jerry for helping to get the typos out and making the answer crystal clear. 

For those who like the command line:
sudo leafpad /etc/default/grub
Make the change described below
sudo update-grub

(02-20-2018, 11:03 PM)supergamer link Wrote:  There is an easier solution that can be easily modified. Use these commands.

sudo thunar

type in password:

Go to the /etc/default folder and right click and open up the grub text file. Find the line [size=1.35em]"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"[/size]

Make it look like this:
"#GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Close out the grub text file and folder and you should still have the terminal opened up.
Run:
sudo update-grub

Reboot and it should be like you like it. To put the splash back in just reverse what you did with editing the line in the grub file.

There are many package tools:

The graphical tools for Update/Upgrade that are available from the Linux Lite menus
and
the Higher Level Debian tools: apt / apt-get / aptitude / synaptic
and
dpkg

Can someone please tell me are all these tools just front ends for dpkg?

Do they all use the same repo lists, or is there a possibility that they may end up using different lists and damage an installation?

Since there are different ways to accomplish the same task, it would be good to know if they are all equivalent/safe, or if there are methods that should be avoided.

In particular keeping up with security updates...  apt-get update / apt-upgrade OK or NOT?

Should I use apt or apt-get or doesn't it matter?

What about aptitude (command line) or synaptic (gui) - at the moment they seem to indicate 4 upgradeable packages (all part of python).  I don't care about them on this VM, but if I did care would be nice to be able to update. 

It seems at the moment those updates are included in all method, but the graphical tools want to update a larger list of packages.

Can someone offer some insight on the workflow regarding updating and how updates/upgrades get migrated from Ubuntu to Linux Lite.

Any input/references etc. will be much appreciated.


---------- Reference Material for the Above ----------
Output from apt-get upgrade (not run) - same results as aptitude/synaptic

Result from Install Updates (Shortcut on the main menu):

They should mimic MX Linux a bit, have excellent gui tools for the user, it is very fast and uses kernel 4.13 After trying MX Linux, the truth ... I do not return anymore to Linux Lite. I found in MX what I needed and much more, and that Linux Lite gave me until today, but I was very little. Hopefully improve and imitate a bit of this great MX Linux distro, so there will be an excellent distro based on Debian and another based on Ubuntu (Linux Lite) Thanks for everything Linxu LIte, hopefully improve, the best for the team.  8)

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]

Output from apt-get -f install

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:~$