Ubuntu Linux

On my Kubuntu 24.04 system I've replaced the Firefox snap package with the proper apt one from Mozilla (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-linux#w_install-firefox-deb-package-for-debian-based-distributions).
I've done this previously on 22.04, but on do-release-upgrade to 24.04 it got undone and I had to manually set things right again. With the upcoming 26.04 release I'm wondering if there's a way to tell do-release-upgrade to leave my installed *.deb packages on my system and not overwrite them with their snap counterpart?

For me, I'll be waiting for at least a point release in Ubuntu before I ever consider migrating any machines. Then I'll check against the forums and any security announcements.

MariaDB's new AppArmor profile is now enforcing in Debian unstable and heading to Ubuntu 26.04. If you are a dba/sysadmin, check your logs and share feedback via the Debian bug tracker.

I am in the very strange situation, since I installed Ubuntu, in which my laptop is connecting to the wifi, but if I open the wifi settings page it stays on "searching for networks" forever. Since I am planning to use this laptop at a conference where I would need a connection, I would like to solve this somehow.

I have used the "wireless-info" tool and the pastebin can be found here .

Only things I noticed are the Intel AX201 controller that in other forums is said to not work at all (not my case), and the fact that my home network connection is defined by a networkd yaml, as opposed to the others (my parent's house) that are defined by a NetworkManager yaml.

I am a beginner so these are all just guesses from me.

Is there a fix or even a separate software I can use to manage my connections, like adding a new one without having to write myself a new yaml file?

I've been running Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' on my 'Streaming Fortress' PC
NUC7 - Intel J5005 - 16GB DDR4-2400 RAM - 120GB SSD (2013 Hardware)
for the last two months now.

I put this machine through the wringer: heavy streaming on a bit ambiguous shady sites films and tv series, and running custom 'Fortress' scripts to isolate it completely from my home network.

Despite the hardware being a bit old and the heavy workload, it’s been a flawless experience so far. Even the major updates didn't break my custom scripts or security structure. Well done, Ubuntu team!! 🐧 🫶

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https://reubuntu.blogspot.com/2025/10/ubuntu-2604-data-di-rilascio-e-nuove.html

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/44901865

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/59381417

I often need to allow some randomly selected port to be open (tcp & udp) in the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW), while some app is active. Then I'd like to close it. The port number is written in a file, say portfile

At the moment I'm doing this manually: read the number, then call sudo ufw allow xxxx/tcp in a terminal. Later on, delete the port rule with sudo ufw delete [rulenumber].

I'm trying to write a bash script to do this in a more automated way. It's easy to read the number from the flie as a variable, then call ufw with that number (provided the script is started as sudo).

What's not clear to me is how to delete the UFW rule once the application is closed. I could start the app within the bash script itself. Maybe it'd just be a matter of waiting for it to finish?

I'm very thankful for suggestions and ideas – and learning more about bash tricks :)

I just got this

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install timeshift
Henter:15 https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/Ubuntu stable InRelease [9.626 B]
E: Repository 'https://www.synaptics.com/sites/default/files/Ubuntu stable InRelease' changed its 'Origin' value from '' to 'Synaptics Inc'
N: This must be accepted explicitly before updates for this repository can be applied. See apt-secure(8) manpage for details.

What fresh hell is this?

I used it the first time because i am a circuit designer this is truly a blessing

just run: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to fix the issue.

I've used multiple linux distro's in the early 2000's but found myself going back to macOS for the last 15 years.

Recently my macbook pro crashed and I decided to ditch big tech and bought a refurbished Lenovo X1 Carbon gen 8 (i5, 16 GB ram, 256 GB disk) for 300 euros (without VAT) & installed Ubuntu 24 LTS

I must say I am so surprised with how polished the OS feels, the fingerprint reader, the screenshots, emojis, the battery life of my Bluetooth headphones, hibernating correctly, pluging in a printer that just works ... its in the little things ...

It has really become something that I can hand over to my mom now and be confident that she will not bump into one issue after the other. Hats of to all devs involved that made this happen!

Ubuntu mit Vivaldi Browser. Pronton Mail cetifikat generieren. Wie geht es?Weißt du was? Seit Tagen suche ich im Netz infos, ich komme nicht weiter.

Two weekends ago I upgraded my Ubuntu desktop from 22.04 to 24.04.3 and was left with an unusable system because I opted to keep my existing copy of the gdm-smartcard-pkcs11-exclusive configuration file because I don't use a smartcard.

But it's a new configuration file and is REQUIRED. By saying I didn't want it updated, the update program didn't create the new one. And since there wasn't an old one, the upgrade failed with "error: alternative path /etc/pam.d/gdm-smartcard-pkcs11-exclusive doesn’t exist" and "The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state." Oh, it certainly was.

It might as well have said, "Enter N if you want your system to become unusable."

The upgrade program should never have asked. If the file is required and it isn't there, it should have just created it. I think it's a bug in the update program.

gdm3, ubuntu-desktop, and ubuntu-desktop-minimal weren't installed. PAM was not set up. No way to log in.

I wrote a blog post about how I recovered from this in case anyone else is bitten by this same issue: https://jerry.hear-me.blog/ubuntu-22-04-to-24-04-upgrade-failure-missing-file/