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

[Mahendra Modi]

Thanks Tony.

Mahendra K Modi

On Aug 10, 2017 18:01, "Tony Travis" <tony.travis at abdn.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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