Do you want to upgrade Ubuntu Noble Numbat from 24.04 to 24.04.1 or later? If so, then that means you are looking for how to upgrade Ubuntu system to a point release. The term "Point Release" to Ubuntu users is more or less similar to "Service Pack" known to Microsoft Windows users which is a whole system upgrade (bug fixes and improvements) within current release major version. That means, in this concept, to us Ubuntu 24.04.3 (Point Three) is more or less similar to Windows XP SP3. This tutorial will explain the procedures with an example of upgrading Ubuntu Noble from fresh install to Point Three.

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Since last year, we have written many articles about Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" (click to view them all). Now, we planned to make a compilation of those in a periodical way i.e. tri-monthly like this. We hope this helps you to learn using Ubuntu for your daily computing better. We will start from downloads, install guide and a few important basics as you may see below. Now, here we go. 

 (A screenshot from the Apps Installation Guide tutorial in this series)

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This simple tutorial explains how to upgrade Ubuntu computer from 20.04 to 22.04 LTS using command lines in four steps. The benefit of upgrading is that you do not need to reinstall or reformat Ubuntu disk partition while keeping all installed applications intact. However, please note that this requires a lot of time. So prepare the requirements, be ready, and happy upgrading!

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You may find you cannot update your Trisquel 8 computer. In my case, the issue is after about one year have not been used, today I run my Trisquel and I am unable to get more applications. For such issue, In most cases, the solution is to change your software sources and try updating once again. Below is how to fix it.

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Suddenly I cannot run my web browser on my computer. It is GNU IceCat on Trisquel operating system. More precisely, other applications seem to be worked normally but only this one failed to function and got some strange error. This issue can happen on other distros as well. Here is my report on this experience along with the solution and some references. I hope this report will be useful for GNU/Linux users everywhere.

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This article is not a tutorial but only a little talk about my experiment. However, I hope beginner user can benefit from this as we will see how APT command lines and how Ubuntu repositories being used in real life. We can also adapt this experiment into other distro such as Debian or PureOS. As usual, I prepare screenshots to make explanations clearer. Enjoy learning!

(Process of installing a package from eoan (newer) into disco (older) Ubuntu system)

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Actually, it is to empty your package storage folder. That means helping to save your free disk space. The storage is located at /var/cache/apt/archives/ as it is the place to store all DEB packages downloaded by APT command. When you use GNU/Linux system for a long time, you must have installed many, many software packages; and you will finally find you are running out of disk space because of those packages. Don't worry, deleting those DEB packages does not remove the actual software installed. This article gives you an explanation with pictures.

 

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This article covers how to upgrade Mozilla Thunderbird manually in Ubuntu. This article uses Ubuntu 15.04 as example but it should be compatible with any other version of Ubuntu. This article consists of three simple steps. We like the manual way so we know what happen while doing upgrading. We will use command line to do this.

We can pass apt-get connection through Tor Networks to keep our privacy. To do it, we need proxifying program called Torsocks to help any command line program to work through Tor socks proxy.

Usually we  can add a new PPA repository by adding it into Software Sources (software-properties-gtk) either from Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic. But actually we can add same PPA manually. This manual method will help user to easily remove unused PPA later.

Those who use Ubuntu in internet-restricted area such as college or office, probably will need proxy configuration for their apt-get command. Especially in the college, when every student given username and password for campus proxy to connect to the internet. Actually we just need to configure proxy or with/without authentication in apt.conf file. Here we go.