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I'm attempting to upgrade to Mint 21 using the mintupgrade tool. However, I get stuck with error messages: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu does not support jammy-updates http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt/ppa/ubuntu does not support jammy-updates I'm guessing jammy-updates is something to do w...

I share a folder of videos with my Mi TV (Android TV) box across my wi-fi network, and then view the videos using VLC. My problem is with the file names. When a video is listed for the first time the file name is correct. When I go back later the file name has been replaced by a number, e.g. 123.mkv...

Earlier today upgraded Thunderbird to 60.3. Lightning (the calendar extension) has disappeared. The fixes that have been published seem to rely upon installing package xul-ext-lightning. However, attempting to do so produces the error message "E: Unable to locate package xul-ext-lightning"...

I've successfully installed a second keyboard layout (Thai) through Preferences->Keyboard->Layout, and both English (US) and Thai are now listed. The "Keyboard" applet shows both "us" and "th". However, when I select "th" the applet immediately flips back to &...

re-install java again http://tecadmin.net/install-java-8-on-debian/# Fails in a very similar manner: Setting up jre1.8.0-112 (1.8.0112-1) ... Unpacking JAR files... plugin.jar... Error: Could not open input file: /usr/java/jre1.8.0_112/lib/plugin.pack javaws.jar... Error: Could not open input file:...

I recently installed Oracle Java 8 (specifically jre1.8.0_112) on LDME 2, 64 bit. Since then every installation via Update Manager seems to be failing with error messages relating to .pack files (plugin.pack, javaws.pack, etc.). These files don't exist. However, there are corresponding .jar files (p...