Bye, bye #Eoan

I'll miss misspelling your name in hashtags, not!;*

"This is a follow-up to the End of Life warning sent earlier this month
to confirm that as of today (July 17, 2020), Ubuntu 19.10 is no longer
supported. No more package updates will be accepted to 19.10, and it
will be archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com in the coming weeks."

- source: Ubuntu email

Well that took a bit of coaxing, finally got #Gimp 2.10.19 to build with #PyGTK bindings on #Focal in spite of Focal not shipping the PyGTK stuff for #Python 2.7. Had to pull apart a couple of DEBs from #Eoan to do it, and add some extra bits to the config step for Gimp, and tweak the pygtk-2.0.pc to suit.

But at least it now works (:*

Now there's a surprise, the day I move from #Eoan to #Focal there's a new version of #ClamAV

So, I've taken the plunge, booted into multi-user.target and started the upgrade process to move from #Eoan to #Focal

Which finally means I'll be able to consistently spell the version name for my #Kubuntu 'd laptop

(;*

Earlier spotted that there's a new stable version of #VLC due to having a multipass #Focal virtual machine sitting on my laptop, that got the update recently. So I've now built it and installed it locally in my running version of #Kubuntu #Eoan

Sneakily, #Videolan doesn't tout the newer version for some reason, so I had to do a bit of investigation to hunt it down.

The new version is 3.0.9.2 btw.

@carl As a side-note. I'll be glad to move along to #Focal since I can at least remember from moment to moment just how to spell that, unlike #Eoan (;*

Only just noticed that #Eoan apparently doesn't source .bashrc if you log into a virtual terminal. Never noticed that happening with earlier #Ubuntu versions. Fixed now with a .bash_profile that checks for xterm-256color being equal to 'linux', so I don't accidentally source .bashrc more than once. Note: In Konsole xterm-256color equals 'xterm-256color' and an xterm window sets it to 'xterm' unsurprisingly.

Even if it's just a list of options I can throw at apt or apt-cache to list libraries that have been superseded by later versions, but that still exist in my version of the newer distribution.

#Bionic #Eoan #Disco #Ubuntu #Linux

#Linux #Ubuntu question...

Noticed after updating from #Disco to #Eoan (forgotten spelling) that Gimp would crash, turned out there was a conflict with two different versions of an SO it was linking to. Resolved the issue and Gimp now works again. The conflict was caused by an old library installed back when I was running #Bionic

My question is: Is there a command I can run that'll list any other orphaned apps and libraries that I can then remove safely to prevent any future issues?:*

Just realised (my email filter wasn't working) that I've been misspelling #Eoan ooops (;*