Life of Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 extended to a decade

[mediclaser]

https://<blocked blogspam>/2021/09/21/ubuntu- ... canonical/

Does this mean the Mint team can also revive LM 18.x and the much older LM 17.x with life extended to the same ten (10) extra years as Ubuntu?

EDIT: Sorry, I've gotten too excited...It looks like the extended support will require UA subscription.

[Pjotr]

https://<blocked blogspam>/2021/09/21/ubuntu- ... canonical/

Does this mean the Mint team can also revive LM 18.x and the much older LM 17.x with life extended to the same ten (10) extra years as Ubuntu?

EDIT: Sorry, I've gotten too excited...It looks like the extended support will require UA subscription.

Apparently up to three subscriptions are free; at least that's what I've heard. Anyway, it won't cover the Mint-only packages. So it's perhaps of interest for some businesses; hardly for personal use.

[t42]

I have two LM 17.3 systems subscribed and getting updates from time to time. Firefox is updated from latest Mozilla available.
LM 18 has no such luck due to some incompatibility.

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Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa
(Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS)
kernel: 4.4.0-214-generic #246~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 27 10:30:21 UTC 2021
Mozilla Firefox 91.1.0esr

Commit Log for Wed Sep 22 21:49:12 2021

Upgraded the following packages:
libcurl3 (7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm7) to 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm9
libcurl3-gnutls (7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm7) to 7.35.0-1ubuntu2.20+esm9
libgd3 (2.1.0-3ubuntu0.11+esm1) to 2.1.0-3ubuntu0.11+esm2
libgd3:i386 (2.1.0-3ubuntu0.11+esm1) to 2.1.0-3ubuntu0.11+esm2
libimage-exiftool-perl (9.46-1) to 9.46-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
libpython3.4 (3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm10) to 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm11
libpython3.4-minimal (3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm10) to 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm11
libpython3.4-stdlib (3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm10) to 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm11
python3.4 (3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm10) to 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm11
python3.4-minimal (3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm10) to 3.4.3-1ubuntu1~14.04.7+esm11

[thx-1138]

LM 18 has no such luck due to some incompatibility.

...in case it helps / you're still interested in ESM for Mint 18,
i still have such in a spare partition as a playground of sorts, and did such yesterday mainly out of curiosity...
Indeed, there appear to exist a few gotchas in order to get ESM up & running on xenial-based Mint 18.

First things first...the simple guide from here :
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-a ... ient/21788
Now - to keep it short...

Grab the deb for the latest ubuntu-advantage-tools, 27.3~16.04.1 currently...
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ub ... tage-tools
Might or might not be needed, can't recall now...it doesn't really hurt either
Apt here was recommending an earlier version instead, 27.0~16.04.1...doh...

Also grab this specific deb for distro-info... 0.14ubuntu0.2:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/distro-info
The higher version number 0.18~ubuntu16.04.1 is...as you can see there, actually...older.
The ubuntu-distro-info binary in it, doesn't provide the --supported-esm parameter, hence ua-client borks out later on...

Backup (...just in case) and edit /etc/os-release to the 'original' Xenial values, or else ua-client bails out once again...

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NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.7 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

I don't recall doing something else yesterday...
although i did spent roughly an hour or so to get it running eventually via previous trial & error.
I just went through the notions by reading /var/log/ubuntu-advantage.log,
in order to figure out why on earth ua-client was outright bailing out on every other step...

Anyways. Have fun...

[t42]

...in case it helps / you're still interested in ESM for Mint 18,

Thanks! I would try 18.3 one more time tomorrow.