"Kevin" == Kevin Stratton via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
I am porting my (limited) stuff to Ubuntu 24.0.1
You mean you're upgrading your system to Ubuntu 24.0.1 with 'do-release-upgrade'?
My ram had another failure and Ubuntu 22.04 entered into a state where I could not install or uninstall any thing. I did different things to repair this. I had no luck in fixing this.
Post some errors, but I suspect you need to fix your apt package database. I usually use the CLI, so if you can open an xterm, it would be helpful to get the output of the following commands sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade And if you get reports of problems, you might do: sudo apt-get install --fix-broken to see if that helps.
I decided to get thundebird Email working and I hit a suprise.
So if you can't install packages, how did you get this installed?
I do not get a visible Thunderbird icon when I installed thunderbird. It also seems to be already installed (In installed the optional ëxtras¨when I installed Ubuntu).
I had to fix the desktop icon by commenting out NoDisplay=true in a copy of the file thunderbird.desktop that I moved to ~/local/share/applications.
Funky...
I wonder if this is partly due to this being the type of application that would be supported by the subscription service.
Has nothing to do with subscription service, I just suspect you have an old old old install which needs to be cleaned up. As I recall, you were upgrading from ubuntu 18.04 right? So I suspect you might have some old packages installed which are holding you back. If you can, do: dpkg-query -l > /tmp/packages.txt and then email me or the list the file as an attachement. I can look it over and give you suggestions on what you maybe remove. Good luck! John