Difference between revisions of "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop"

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This did not went completely smooth, the installer complained about a missing package (ubuntu-desktop could not be configured due to missing dependencies).
 
This did not went completely smooth, the installer complained about a missing package (ubuntu-desktop could not be configured due to missing dependencies).
  
This had to be sorted out semi-manually with <pre>sudo apt-get -f  install</pre>
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This had to be sorted out semi-manually with <pre>sudo apt-get -f  install</pre>.
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The default theme (adwaita) was broken after the upgrade, leading to unpleasant transient issues with the desktop.
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Apart from some glitches with the mouse and a manual upgrade to Mate 1.14, everything seemed to work more or less.
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== Installing a XBox360 controller kernel driver ==
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Surprisingly, one new USB-device did not work out of the box and the kernel-driver needed patching.
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See https://askubuntu.com/questions/695069/xbox-controller-blinking Option 1 for the solution, which worked for me:
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<pre>
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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mdeslaur/steamos/
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sudo apt-get install steamos-xpad-dkms
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</pre>
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== Summary ==
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Not perfect, but overall, it appears to work.
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Some fine tuning is needed to get minor issues resolved.
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More to come...

Revision as of 20:37, 21 December 2016

Upgrade procedure

After the graphical updater downloaded a ton of packages (around 3.5 GB in total) it started upgrading the system in place.

This did not went completely smooth, the installer complained about a missing package (ubuntu-desktop could not be configured due to missing dependencies).

This had to be sorted out semi-manually with

sudo apt-get -f  install

.

The default theme (adwaita) was broken after the upgrade, leading to unpleasant transient issues with the desktop.

Apart from some glitches with the mouse and a manual upgrade to Mate 1.14, everything seemed to work more or less.

Installing a XBox360 controller kernel driver

Surprisingly, one new USB-device did not work out of the box and the kernel-driver needed patching.

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/695069/xbox-controller-blinking Option 1 for the solution, which worked for me:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mdeslaur/steamos/
sudo apt-get install steamos-xpad-dkms

Summary

Not perfect, but overall, it appears to work.

Some fine tuning is needed to get minor issues resolved.

More to come...