Questions tagged [lts]
LTS stands for "Long Term Support release". These Ubuntu releases are considered to be especially stable and receive official support longer than normal releases. A new LTS comes out every 2 years. This tag should be used for questions regarding LTS releases in general. For questions about a specific LTS release please use the respective version tag.
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What's the difference between a Long Term Support Release and a Normal Release?
What are the differences between an Ubuntu Long Term Support release (LTS) and a normal release?
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Can I smoothly upgrade from one LTS to next LTS release?
Question is about Ubuntu release process. Are migrations from n to n+1 releases expected?
Assuming we have server with installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
Will it be smoothly upgradable to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ...
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Debian Stable vs Ubuntu LTS for Server? [closed]
Which is a better platform for a professional use server?
Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS?
The third party software we plan to use, works on both. Which one is better on it own merits?
Take into ...
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cannot import saved openVPN configuration file in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I am trying to import a .ovpn file from the network manager.
Here are the steps I follow.
Network Manager → VPN Connections → configure VPN
This opens the Network Connections dialogue.
Then,
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How do I upgrade from 14.04 LTS to 16.04.1 LTS?
So, today is July 21st and this page. gives me an option to download 16.04.1 LTS. However, attempting to upgrade gets me this message -
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
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How can I upgrade the Ubuntu LTS kernel to newer?
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04.2 64-bit on my desktop PC and I see the kernel in System Monitor is 3.5.0-23 but in Ubuntu 12.04.2 in my laptop the kernel is 3.2.0-38.
I have already tried to run the ...
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When is the exact date for EOL of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
Looking online I can see mention in a cached version of a blog.ubuntu.com post that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is EOL on 30th April 2019, however it has been updated to just April 2019. What is the official EOL ...
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Why isn't Chromium up-to-date in all the Ubuntu LTS repos, like Firefox is?
The chromium-browser package in Ubuntu's LTS repos is rather old for the older 12.04LTS & 14.04LTS. See this search of Ubuntu's packages for chromium-browser to see that chromium-browser is at:
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Is the "Final Release" a "Development Release"?
Update
The official Release Notes appear to have been updated recently (as of writing this the last update appears to have taken place on 3rd of June) to include the following statement:
The -d ...
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How to switch from libinput to synaptics in Ubuntu 18.04
There is a problem with my laptop — jumping cursor. I think the hardware is the source of the problem. Maybe toucpad is just very inaccurate when getting finger coordinates and touching events.
On ...
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Why my ubuntu 16.04 LTS suddenly become very slow?
I installed ubuntu 16.04 LTS in Oct. last year on my newly bought HP Envy i7-6700 CPU (x64-based 3.4GHz 4-core 8 -processors, 16 GB ram, 2TB hard drive), it was running OK until just before the X-mas ...
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Unmet dependencies for python 3.10
Here is the specific problem:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libpython3.10-stdlib : Depends: libpython3.10-minimal (= 3.10.4-1+focal1) but it is not going to be installed
python3.10-...
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Upgrade 16.04.2 LTS to kernel version 4.8? [duplicate]
I am on Welcome to Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-62-generic i686) and when I do:
aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade
no upgrades are offered. aptitude search linux-headers-4.8 offers several ...
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Quantal backported kernel in 12.04.2? What's going on there?
I'm sure that I'm not the first and/or only one to notice that 12.04.2, released earlier this year, installs by default a backported 3.5 kernel from the Quantal (12.10) release.
I'm surprised to see ...
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Can Ubuntu Server 10.04.4 LTS be upgraded to NON-LTS?
I have a server running Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. Can I upgrade this distribution to precise LTS, then from there, convert to non-LTS releases?
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Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS to 14.04.1 LTS upgrade: "no new release found"
According to Trusty Tahr Release Schedule, Ubuntu LTS 14.04.1 (first .1 version) was released two days ago.
Unfortunately when trying to upgrade using the do-release-upgrade command I get the message ...
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How to only perform LTS upgrades?
I know I've seen this documented somewhere before, but what's the option to keep update-manager from prompting for updates except for LTS-to-LTS releases?
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how to open multiple vlc interface (window) in xubuntu 14.04 lts
I am using xubuntu 14.04 lts. I notice new menu only allow to open one interface(window) of vlc. I want to open two interface from menu at the same time for vlc.
Is it possible to have that?
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Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS No Screen Sharing Option
Under settings, sharing there is no option for Screen Sharing however on another machine with exactly the same image there is an option for Screen Sharing. Any assistance would be appreciated.
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What are the specifics of 18.04's ten year support?
Apparently Shuttleworth announced at the OpenStack Summit that Ubuntu 18.04 will have ten years of support (originally cited ZDnet article). But neither the Ubuntu website nor the Ubuntu wiki have ...
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How to install Kindle on Ubuntu 18.04?
The title says it all.
Ubuntu 18.04.*
wine 3.04
KindleForPC-installer-1.25.52064.exe (latest)
I'm not knowledgeable about error messages. In a console, when I run ...
$ wine KindleForPC-installer-...
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Is it possible to skip an LTS upgrade?
If you want to upgrade from 10.10 to 12.04, then you'll need to follow the upgrade path; 10.10 > 11.04 > 11.10 > 12.04. However, with LTS versions, you can upgrade directly, so that you can upgrade ...
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What is a development branch?
I had Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed and that was fine until I read online that I could upgrade it to Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). I did what it said and now I am running Focal Fossa but in the title it ...
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Sane path to distribution upgrades
I'm using Hardy (server) on quite a few machines and I'd like to upgrade to the latest LTS. Is it safe to edit my sources.list file to just point to the new LTS, or should I do a succession of dist ...
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Should I upgrade to an LTS release if I want to keep receiving non-LTS releases?
If I upgrade to an LTS version, will it be able to upgrade to the next non-LTS release or will I be stuck with an LTS version of Ubuntu?
I am currently using a non-LTS version of Ubuntu. When the ...
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Will Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus have LTS? [duplicate]
I've read over the information I can find on 17.04 Zesty Zapus
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZestyZapus/ReleaseNotes
The only information I can go off of for official support:
"Ubuntu 17.04 will be ...
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Unsupported Ubuntus - is it safe to continue with them?
I'll try to be as clear as I can about this, hoping to get clear answers.
I have Ubuntu Studio 15.10, which is not an LTS version, and will only be supported till July 2016.
Does that mean there ...
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16.04 LTS to 18.04.1 LTS upgrade: No new release found [duplicate]
I can't get the 16.04 LTS to 18.04.1 LTS upgrade to work, I'm running server.
My current version:
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.5 ...
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Unable to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04, no real error?
I received the notice that there's an update for my desktop install, but I'm unable to do so. There's no real error messages that I can see. I've run sudo apt autoremove, sudo apt upgrade, and sudo ...
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How to enable HWE on Ubuntu 22.04
I have an installation of Ubuntu 22.04 (desktop) that I did as soon as 22.04 was available, so it was 22.04.0 at the time. It's fully up to date and currently on 22.04.1 according to "lsb_release ...
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Do I lose LTS support if I upgrade to a non-LTS release?
I have been using Ubuntu since 8.04 as my primary OS and every six months I upgrade to the latest distribuition release. I am currently using 12.04 LTS.
Thinking ahead, if I upgrade to 12.10 or any ...
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Is Canonical Livepatch not supported on non-LTS release like Ubuntu 18.10?
Last night I thought to check whether Canonical Livepatch service is working fine after upgrading to Ubuntu 18.10 from Ubuntu 18.04.
I know it was meaningless since it was working fine in Ubuntu 18.04....
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How to stop updating of non-HWE kernels after installing HWE kernels in Ubuntu LTS releases?
I ran the following a week ago to upgrade from 16.04.1 to 16.04.2 with HWE:
sudo apt install --install-recommends xserver-xorg-hwe-16.04
It installed a 4.8 kernel which I'm running now. Just now, I ...
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Why is unattended-upgrades activated by default?
I just migrated from CentOS to Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS. I chose "no" when it asked me to do automatic updates during the setup. However, I just realized that by default unattended-upgrades is ...
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Unable to boot Ubuntu Live USB Flash Drive with casper-rw persistent partition
So, I've spent the last day going through similar questions, and can confirm first that this is not a duplicate of:
Ubuntu Live-USB Using a "casper-rw" Partition
Persistent Ubuntu 14.04 USB fails to ...
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How to install GLIBCXX_3.4.29 on Ubuntu 20.04?
I downloaded DOOM BFA Version 1.2.8 but after running I got the message:
./DoomBFA: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6: version
`GLIBCXX_3.4.29 'not found (required by ./DoomBFA)
Is there any ...
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How to remove Kernel/LTS Enablement Stack?
this question regarding the LTS Enablement Stack has actually two parts:
I installed Linux 3.5.0-x on Precise 64bit via sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-quantal xserver-xorg-lts-quantal . As ...
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Bluetooth Issues in 18.04 LTS
I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and after the recent upgrade to the final release on April 26, 2018, I found that my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1440) was unable to connect to my Bluetooth speakers using a ...
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Does 12.04 LXDE have LTS? [duplicate]
This question sparked my question.
Will my PC receive the Long Term Support (LTS) using LXDE in Ubuntu 12.04?
What does it mean that Lubuntu doesn't have long term support? Does it just mean it's ...
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How to fix 0x8027025a error when installing Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on WSL?
The following fail message appeared when I tried installing Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on WSL. I'm not able to type anything, therefore, I'm not able to finish the set up.
Those are the outputs I'm getting from ...
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How do I install pillow in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
I went to This site for installing Pillow since the original PIL is a discontinued project and so now not so good to use. But, in the table support for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is unmentioned. It appears ...
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Login screen loops unless you login as Guest [duplicate]
I am running a VMWare Player with a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin as Guest on my Windows 7.
Sometimes I get the shutdown blue screen error in Windows, this time it happened when I was running the ...
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Is my Ubuntu LTS EOL?
Lately whenever I run software update I get the message
suggesting that my version of Ubuntu is EOL. But when I run lsb_release -a I get
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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Error installing Ubuntu 22.04 on WSL
When attempting to install Ubuntu on WSL, I get a "Something went wrong" error:
How should I troubleshoot/resolve this?
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Ubuntu 22.04 iso too big for DVD
I am trying to install ubuntu-22.04-2-desktop-amd64.iso on an HP Z210 computer. When I go into the BIOS boot menu with a bootable USB inserted, the BIOS does not recognize the USB stick. So I need to ...
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Do I need to take action on a 10.04 LTS server to avoid the heartbleed vulnerability?
From the heartbleed.com website, I see that OpenSSL 0.9.8 is NOT vulnerable, which is the version that is available on 10.04. That should mean that actually having stuck with 10.04 until now has ...
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How can I install emacs 27 in ubuntu LTS (18.04.1)?
Question says it all, emacs 27 doesn't seem to be available through apt-get on my ubuntu version nor PPAs. Does that mean I have to build it from source? Thank you.
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Why is a LTS release not using the Extended Support Version of Thunderbird?
Precise Pangolin (12.04) is a LTS (Long Term Support) release of Ubuntu. Why is Thunderbird 11 included, instead of Thunderbird 10 ESR (Extended Support Release)?
Is there any way to install ...
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Security updates for the universe repository for LTS releases?
What happens if there is a security problem in a package in the universe repository four years after the 12.04 LTS release; will the package be updated from upstream, patched, or left alone?
It's my ...
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Which version of Debian are Ubuntu LTS releases based on?
This answer says:
The base of the operating system, Debian, comes in three versions: Stable, Testing and Unstable. Normally, Ubuntu is based on Testing; the LTS releases are based on Stable.
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