LTS not Neon compatible

[oshunluvr]

I just saw this for the first time so I thought I'd share:

https://userbase.kde.org/Neon/LTS/EOL

I followed the instructions and had no issues.

[claydoh]

So, you were like that one person left who actually used the Neon LTS version, over the User edition, then ?

[oshunluvr]

LOL, yup that was me...

[GreyGeek]

Wow! I never knew that KDE Neon had an LTS edition.
My user edition is running beautifully!
For grins and giggles I did a benchmark on it this evening:

                PassMark PerformanceTest Linux


Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz (x86_64)
4 cores @ 3300 MHz | 15.5 GiB RAM
Number of Processes: 8 | Test Iterations: 1 | Test Duration: Medium
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
CPU Mark:                          5997
Integer Math                      20430 Million Operations/s
Floating Point Math               10223 Million Operations/s
Prime Numbers                      25.4 Million Primes/s
Sorting                           13780 Thousand Strings/s
Encryption                         1939 MB/s
Compression                          94 MB/s
CPU Single Threaded                1876 Million Operations/s
Physics                             443 Frames/s
Extended Instructions (SSE)        3800 Million Matrices/s

Memory Mark:                       2010
Database Operations                2482 Thousand Operations/s
Memory Read Cached                21485 MB/s
Memory Read Uncached              12326 MB/s
Memory Write                       8247 MB/s
Available RAM                      7119 Megabytes
Memory Latency                       52 Nanoseconds
Memory Threaded                   18298 MB/s
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Use ESC or CTRL-C to exit
A: Run All Tests C: Run CPU Tests M: Run Memory Tests U: Upload Test Results

An aside: it used to be that when we put formatted text in between code markers the text would stay formatted. Not so in the new system. To keep the formatting I have to enter the "source" editor mode and save the post as such.

[marco07]

My user edition is running beautifully!

I also use Neon user edition which runs nicely. Except I do not like the way it lately handles the updates. Its an imitation of Windows OS.

[claydoh]

I also use Neon user edition which runs nicely. Except I do not like the way it lately handles the updates. Its an imitation of Windows OS.

You can disable it from within System Settings.

I like the idea, but only for things that warrant rebooting. Kernels and the like.

[GreyGeek]

Open muon and click on settings, then on "configure software sources". If you haven't enabled "software-properties-kde" then create the lnk as shown below. That will allow you to enter your password.

$ vdir /usr/bin/software*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 27 20:54 /usr/bin/software-properties-kde -> software-properties-qt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6117 Apr 30 2021 /usr/bin/software-properties-qt

sudo 'ln -s /usr/bin/software-properties-qt /usr/bin/software-properties-kde'

[Beerislife]

Don't forget to turn off 'Use offline updates' in System Settings. It reminds me too much of the one time Windows wanted to update itself until I removed all of its partitions!

[GreyGeek]

Don't forget to turn off 'Use offline updates' in System Settings. It reminds me too much of the one time Windows wanted to update itself until I removed all of its partitions!

My System Settings does not have that setting.

[Beerislife]

This is my current version...

[GreyGeek]

Here's my Info. As you can see, our info is essentially the same, but I don't have that ofline update option.

[claydoh]

Then something is not right on your install, missing or removed for some reason.
Maybe see if you have the package neon-desktop installed, and if not, see what installing it pulls in.

[GreyGeek]

Then something is not right on your install, missing or removed for some reason.
Maybe see if you have the package neon-desktop installed, and if not, see what installing it pulls in.

I did some investigating and discovered that I do not have "apt-offline" and "apt-offline-gui" installed. So, I'm wondering if the offline update option in System Settings is the result of those two apps, But, I am not going to install them to find out.

[claydoh]

I did some investigating and discovered that I do not have "apt-offline" and "apt-offline-gui" installed. So, I'm wondering if the offline update option in System Settings is the result of those two apps, But, I am not going to install them to find out.

That's not it at all. This is a systemd process, actually. I don't have either of these packages installed, either.

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2021/03/01...es-are-coming/
https://www.debugpoint.com/2021/03/o...-neon-arrives/

The above are slightly outdated now, since the addition of the setting in System Settings, but they do describe the process going on.
https://pointieststick.com/2021/04/1...-now-optional/

And the manpage:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software...e-updates.html

[GreyGeek]

You solved it! Thanks Claydoh!