Comments on: Installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

By: Terence

Terence — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:30:41 +0000

This post has great resource article potential. Just one problem I can see, for future readers. In the “How to set up separate Root, Home and Swap paritions” section (your spelling, not mine) you neglected to mention you also need a “boot partition” to have a fully configured bootable system. It will be configured just as you want it, but it won’t boot. In fact, it won’t even install as the installer crashes! You might want to fix that, for the sake of those that follow.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 20:04:33 +0000

Colin, I think you’re referring to Unity Web Apps. That was dropped, due to various issues. Details here:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/05/what-happened-ubuntu-unity-web-app-integration

He does say that it might be restored in Unity v8. And it’s apparently possible to install it manually in 16.04 (and 14.04), as the packages are still in the repositories:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/762847/unable-to-install-unity-webapps-in-ubuntu-16-04

By: Colin N

Colin N — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 19:51:52 +0000

Brainstorms, thanks for your reply. In 14.04, I had icons in the taskbar linking directly to Facebook and Twitter, however as far as I can see this type of feature has been deleted, so I’ll have to use Firefox for now.

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:24:28 +0000

Colin, Don’t you access Facebook and Twitter from your web browser? (I’m not aware that either of these have a dedicated Linux application. Do they?)

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 18:23:11 +0000

But you can also make your partition larger, maybe? That is where LVM really shines... (And LVM is easy to implement -- it's one of the best-written, best-documented Linux features. Very cool.)

By: Colin N

Colin N — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 07:51:29 +0000

Brainstorms/Greg, thanks for all your help and advice. Most of my stuff is now up and running OK. The only things I’ve not now got are Facebook and Twitter which I have direct links to on my old laptop (14.04) but can’t find where to load from for 16.04. I enabled the 3rd party software options. Any ideas ?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 15:53:36 +0000

On the zip thing, some browsers, systems, whatever, IIRC automatically make things into zip files when downloading, or at least, this was a thing that happened historically. Maybe that was the problem.

On firefox bookmarks, etc. I have no idea. I recommend Chrome/Chromium. If you have a google account, and you sign in on one of those browsers to your account, your bookmarks automatically load.

I imagine Firefox has something like that.

On old images, yes, as Brainstorms says, if your partition is too small, you need to prune.

But you can also make your partition larger, maybe?

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:44:00 +0000

Yes, it’s still necessary to “prune” old kernels & header files periodically in 16.04. Ubuntu, being a Debian Linux derivative, does not do this by default. (Likely because it’s too risky to assume the user doesn’t want to keep particular old kernels.)

More details about this subject here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/590673/why-doesnt-ubuntu-remove-old-kernels-automatically

By: Brainstorms

Brainstorms — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 14:39:51 +0000

Colin, you can either use a bookmark backup to transfer your bookmarks, or you can use Firefox Sync to do it:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them#w_moving-bookmarks-to-another-computer

Or you can manually copy the files containing this info to your new system:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/982636

By: Colin N

Colin N — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:02:49 +0000

On my old laptop running 14.04, after a while I had problems installing updates due to partitioning size, and subsequently used Synaptic Package Manager to delete previously installed Linux images.

Is it still necessary to do this on 16.04 ?