I tried to update the system using discover but it NEVER asked for my password. I minimized everything in case it was a windows focus thing but it wasn't there. I tried rebooting but it still didn't work. I am currently updating via the terminal. That appears to have worked. During the update I noticed some error messages about unable to delete directories because they were not empty! Many of them so the upgrade isn't as clean as it should be. I have seen discover get messed up several times over several years and it seems to get fixed by updating via the terminal.
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Just to remind users and devs that Ubuntu and its flavors have a long way to go to be as usr friendly as they should be.
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Do you mean just sudo apt update; sudo apt full-upgrade? If you have snaps or flatpaks, you should update them too:Originally posted by steve7233 View Post
(That last assumes your flatpaks are "user" and not "system".)Code:sudo snap refresh flatpak update
That's not unusual. How unclean it is depends on the packages, out of APT's control I think.During the update I noticed some error messages about unable to delete directories because they were not empty!
IME it's not as bad as it once was, but when it's got a problem, apt doesn't always sort it.I have seen discover get messed up several times over several years and it seems to get fixed by updating via the terminal.
Presently, for me discover is failing to update my signal flatpak. I only have two (the other is chromium). flatpak update has no trouble. Since I use the apt commands, mostly to get better messages when things go wrong, discover is mostly a notification service for me.
Regards, John Little
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