[Bio-linux-list] FW: New contact form received

[Tony Travis]

On 10/08/17 10:17, Mahendra Modi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded a new installation of Bio-Linux (my desktop - a Dell ystem
> with 2x i7 processor) to BioLinux 8.0.8 as per instruction provided.
> Everything works well. So, most probably I will upgrade my BioLinux
> servers as well. However, while running 'apt-get update' I get the
> following errors. Can anyone  explain what is happenning here?

Hi, Mahendra.

There is a bug in Bio-Linux 8.0.7 caused by an incorrect APT
sources.list entry for Google Chrome. It should be like this:

> cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
> ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
> # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
> deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

You need to edit the file, then run the APT commands again:

  apt update
  apt full-upgrade
  apt-get autoremove

You don't need to do this on "Aryabhatta" because I already did :-)

> ajt at Aryabhatta[ajt] cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list                                                        [ 5:55PM]
> ### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
> # You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
> deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

And "Aryabhatta" is already upgrades to Ubuntu 14.04.05 LTS:

> ajt at Aryabhatta[ajt] lsb_release -d                                                                                        [ 5:56PM]
> Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS

The purpose of the Bio-Linux 8.0.8 release is to make the USB-stick more
compatible with modern hardware (e.g. WiFi chipsets) and to reduce the
number of updates required to be downloaded after installation. If you
keep a Bio-Linux 8 instance up-to-date you will already be running the
equivalent of Bio-Linux 8.0.8.

HTH,

  Tony.

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