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It has now been almost a year since Ubuntu 20.04 came out, from which Mint's install partition bug originated. The same thing happened to me trying to install LM 20 MATE. I chucked it after it froze on the Installation Type screen and others on this forum have talked about it not installing to the s...

I just installed LM 20 MATE. I selected install alongside Mint 19 for the installation. Instead of installing to the one available partition sda2, LM 20 created two partitions from that partition, created an extended partition sda4/sda5 and also a fat32 /boot/efi partition sda3. Why is that? I am ru...

These links explain the problem in detail: https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/995 https://github.com/crosswire/xiphos/issues/947 LM 19 uses Xiphos 4.0.7 and it works fine. Neither Crosswire/Xiphos nor Linux Mint was responsible for fixing this bug which is a toolkit package problem. Last Spr...

SMG, Thanks for your reply. I liked 17.3 because it was probably LM's best work ever. I also liked LM 18 which I have on my T400 and T420 which are both running fine. On my newer T450 I have LM 19 running AOK. I thought it was perhaps a hardware or driver issue. I am unable to use LM 20.x because of...

I recently purchased a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad T450. I have LM 19 MATE running on it without any serious issues. Out of curiosity I have unsuccessfully tried to install LM 17.3 MATE and LM 18.0 MATE on another partition. In both cases I can't get past the Installation Type screen. I get a disk e...

It is not Linux Mint but Aviation Weather who provides the weather information. The same thing happened last June when they updated their RHEL software. You just have to wait until they resolve the problem.

Running on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 with 4 GB memory. Getting this error in the past few days: W: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/upstream/f/firefox/firefox_82.0+linuxmint5+sylvia_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 208.77.20.11 80] I have noticed this happening with Mint from time to time ...

Update Manager is working OK again after not working for several days. This update blockage occurred with Linux Mint and Debian based distros but NOT with vanilla Ubuntu distros. I have no explanation for why this happened. Thanks for everyone's help.

I did some more testing. Here are the results using LIVE DVDs: Mint 19 - Was able to run updates and upgraded a program in Synaptic Mint 20 - Was able to run updates and upgraded a program in Synaptic Mint 18.1 and 18.2 - Was NOT able to run updates or install from Synaptic. Getting the same "F...

I'm also getting this error when trying to reload sources list cache: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Could not open file descriptor -1 E: Unable to lock the list directory The cache reload is failing on: http://packages.linuxmint.com sa...

Tried in Update Manager, Synaptic and the Terminal. Same errors even though I tried several different mirrors. Same problem on one of my other laptops. Downloads get "stuck". NEVER had this problem before with LM 18. Something wierd going on with LM repositories in the past few days.

After doing some research on the web I was able to successfully post all the updates. There seems to be an ongoing APT cache problem from time to time with Linux Mint.

I tried several different mirrors without success. Same result. I haven't run any updates in 2-3 weeks and nothing was changed on the system.

I am using LM 18 MATE. Update Manager has failed to fetch security updates in the past few days. Errors received: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial/InRelease Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/xenial-updates/InRelease Failed to fetch http://archive.ubu...

Using Mint 18 MATE. Is there any way to change the login screen when coming out of suspend? Such as the background of the screen? It is now black (Ugh!). Thanks.

Has anyone been able to get Xiphos running properly on LMDE 4 or Debian 10 Buster? The drop down menus don't work the way they should, making the application useless. For me it has only worked well on Ubuntu based distros. Thanks.

I would like to know how to move the network, update manager and sound icons from the bottom panel to the top panel. It used to be easy in LM 17/18/19 but I don't see a way to do this in LM 20.04. I tried moving the indicator applet witht the 3 dots : but it just moved the 3 dots and not the icons. ...

The new METAR server at Aviation Weather has been activated as of 6/23/2020 P.M.

Update: 6/24 4:00pm EDT - METAR is back offline again.

UPDATE: 6/28 - Aviation Weather seems to be stable with their new RHEL release. Will continue to monitor.

I looked up the GitHub open issues on this. It apprently affects many distros other than Mint. Does anyone have an idea when this problem is going to be solved and a fix made available?

Still not working here in Florida, USA