I reported a bug with LibreOffice (the 'official'  bionic-upgrade version) and LO support person suggested upgrading to a current version from their site.  They said I was using an old version.  I prefer to upgrade via 'Ubuntu Software' in an attempt to reduce risk (security and stability) so I looked there.  It caused me to wonder if the more up-to-date, snap version, which also appears in 'Ubuntu Software' alongside , is (more) trustworthy than the Canonical distributed one.  Basically, how much trust can be placed in snap of a provider?  This obviously requires comparing it to the trustworthiness of Canonical Corp...!  p.s. Please don't simply suggest to learn to read code and I won't suggest you learn DIY open heart surgery; humans specialise.
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I don't like installing apps outside my distro's official repositories. Linux's security relies a lot on having a repository meticulously curated and tested for library compatibility with current distro version, stability and security. Once I installed, from outside repos, a fancy terminal emulator that mimicked retro green/amber phosphor monitors. This app wreaked havoc in my system and I had to reinstall Ubuntu. I hesitate a lot about using PPAs as well. I only trust very few external sources, PPAs or packages downloaded from websites. But now Snap and  seems to be all the rage in Ubuntu-specialized sites.  Is it safe to install Snap apps or Flatpak apps? Are there official repos for such? How is stability taken cared of with this non-apt stuff?
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Has anyone had any success connecting things like content builder or cloud pages to GitHub? I have been searching far and wide and have come across this amazing repository that almost does what I need (). The reason being as our organization grows and things become more complex we would love the ability to track changes and have reviewers before things are published. Most of my experience comes from GitHub and I am struggling to find any source of versioning within SFMC. Any recommendations would be helpful!
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Following up on Canonical's announcement, what is , where can I download a copy of the OS to run on my phone? And how do I know if it's compatible with my phone?
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I got a new install of 18.04, and when I install en app from Ubuntu Software or snap it will not start. If I install the same app from a deb-package it works. What is going on? Kinda resembles a permissions problem or something...  Please help! :D
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I am wondering whether or not there is a way to completely remove snap from Ubuntu 19.10 without losing the ability to install important applications like Chromium.   When I just recently updated to the newest Ubuntu release I realized that the installer programmatically reinstalled snap, although I had manually removed it before. Additionally the installer removed Chromium, which was installed via the repositories, and reinstalled it via snap.   As I don't want snap to be installed on my machines for various reasons my question is if anybody knows a safe way to remove it, and to get the Chromium DEB back to the sources?  Is there a PPA? Could I use a source of an Ubuntu flavor additionally, which didn't remove the Chromium Deb from its sources?
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Apparantly, one needs an Ubuntu SSO account for installing Snaps in 16.04 through ubuntu software (see  link). That's fine with me, but it keeps telling me that my username or password is wrong although I've just changed my password (in fact, twice just to be sure).   So, what could I do to prevent Ubuntu software to tell me my password is wrong, please?
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I am use Ubuntu 16.04. I see on snap's home page that it installed as default on Ubuntu 16.04. But when I run any command with snap, I can't take any result includes :      snap --version   Please help me.
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In Software Sources under the Other Software tab, there is an option of enabling "Canonical Partners" repository: software packaged by Canonical for their partners.  Do I understand correctly that this repo includes third-party created applications that by arrangement are packaged and maintained by Canonical?  Does this mean Canonical can look at the source code of these third-party applications and hence ensure the security and stability of these apps in Ubuntu, making them as secure &amp; stable as the software in the Main repo?
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What kind of support do they receive from Canonical or/and Ubuntu community? Who decides a distro should become official flavour? What privileges do "official flavours" have over unofficial derivatives of Ubuntu like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Deepin OS,etc.?
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I'm subscribed to the Ubuntu Security Notes, so everytime that I receive an e-mail, a new update is avalable.  But in the last update, they wrote something in the end that I coudn't undertand much, so can anyone please tell me what does that means?  ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. If you use linux-restricted-modules, you have to update that package as well to get modules which work with the new kernel version. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-server, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.   I tried to ask to my friend (who also uses Linux), but he don't know much about kernel.
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There are now errors when updating and I cannot install most software due to a corrupted  /etc/apt/sources.list   file. Is there a copy I can download to replace it?  The file would be for Ubuntu 12.04 (Final Beta) in the United States.
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Let's assume that one has some modern HP printer and/or scanner which is not supported by HPLIP package from official repository. Currently Ubuntu versions have :  trusty (14.04LTS): 3.14.3-0ubuntu3.4 xenial (16.04LTS): 3.16.3+repack0-1 bionic (18.04LTS): 3.17.10+repack0-5 focal (20.04LTS): 3.20.3+dfsg0-2 groovy (20.10): 3.20.5+dfsg0-3build1 hirsute (21.04): 3.21.2+dfsg1-2   What can one do if printer is supported in newer version of HPLIP (checked this in )?
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I want to upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS to 18.04, so ran sudo do-release-upgrade. After downloading and extracting bionic.tar.gz I get:  Can not upgrade   Your python3 install is corrupted. Please fix the '/usr/bin/python3' symlink.   I saw  and so I did sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3 thinking that it would be a similar problem. But that didn't work (still same error message).  I have a few python versions:  $ ls /usr/lib | grep python python2.7 python3 python3.5 python3.6  $ update-alternatives --display python3 python3 - auto mode   link best version is /usr/bin/python3.6   link currently points to /usr/bin/python3.6   link python3 is /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python3.5 - priority 1 /usr/bin/python3.6 - priority 2   How do I fix python3?
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Completely confused with this new feature snap. I know this might be detailed question-answer but I need to know some info regarding it.   I have read that new application format, snap which can be installed by default in the latest long-term support release alongside traditional deb packages. So, Does it mean are there packages with .snap extension like .deb? Then, How to install?   The user can use newer versions of apps on older versions of Ubuntu without forsaking the stability of your entire system.  Is this the only difference between deb and snap? Does it only exist to LTS version or for non-LTS too?   With this, it is also said that Creating snaps is simplified for developers with the introduction of a new tool called “snapcraft” to easily build and package applications from source and existing deb packages. Is it useful to desktop user or only for developers ?
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I'm pretty new to running linux, but I know that 19.04 was released today and I wanted to upgrade from my current 18.10. However, when I follow the release notes here:  I get the message "The software on this computer is up to date". I made sure that my update settings are set to "any new version" and "normal" in the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades file.   What am I doing wrong?  Thanks for the help!  Side note: I had to disable this PPA:  because it would cause errors in apt updating. Do I need to re-add it? If so how do I do so without it giving me an error?  Edit: I have followed the procedure recommended in the documentation which is identical to the suggested duplicate, but I am not given the option to upgrade. I have not yet tried the   do-release-upgrade -d    option as I don't want to upgrade to the developer version.
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Assumptions  Honestly, I do not know much about  snap-packages - but this is irrelevant for this question - see below. I assume the system is significantly different from the existing one.  Does the change make sense?  Is there an actual need, strong enough? That is - is there a new use case, that is important enough to develop a new format - and the associated infrastructure?  Was it not feasible to change the current method to cover the new use cases too?  Or am I missing the point?  It is possible that what I see is mostly marketing - new names and presentation for minimal technical change, to get a chance that any body assumes it as "new and better" and it may be actually used. Also, it may be that the new packages are so closely based on the existing format that it is mostly a change in presentation to the user. That could be a good solution, of course. In this case, this question would have not much relevance.  Then, I would hope that is still useful enough to answer to side aspects.  Just let me know if the question is not helpful or confusing to new users, I'm happy to delete it.  So, why do they exist?    Background  My first reaction was "That makes no sense!"  This is similar to a situation where, on the physics site, someone asked, unhappy, why nobody discusses his brilliant new ideas in answers. It looked strongly like crackpot ideas; So far from actual physical knowledge that it was hard to find a point to even start. I wrote an answer that did not touch his ideas with a single word, but explained why one would just not discuss assuming crackpot ideas - not the first case of that. The answer was actually hitting the point, I think.    If my assumptions were right, this case is similar.    But then, maybe not - let's see.
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As a new Ubuntu user, I have installed a few apps through the Terminal.  I have tried to follow several, albeit outdated, threads that explain how to install OpenOffice, but I cannot get it to work. It would be really helpful if someone would provide me with the necessary commands for it to work.