Just installed 6.6. There are a few applications I need (Discord, WhatsApp, NordPass) that don't show up in Synaptic. Is there a repo I can add or do I have to download .deb files?

Just installed 6.6 on my old laptop. Really like it. Seems snappier than some other XCFE distros I've tried recently.

Release Announcement

Linux Lite 6.6 Final is now available for download and installation.

This is one our largest releases on record since we began in 2012.

We've added 1000's of lines of new code in the form of supporting a large range of languages.
We've massively increased the number of language translations across the entire Menu and Sub-Menu system, by adding support for 22 Languages.
We had the time to take on a task of this magnitude so we used it completely.

If you speak a language other than English, we hope you enjoy a vastly improved and a more complete Linux Lite.




Changes:


Support for 22 new Languages added

Afrikaans
Arabic
Chinese - Simplified
Croatian
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hebrew
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Portuguese - Brazilian
Russian
Serbian
Spanish
Sweden
Ukranian


In the areas of:

Main Menu
Right click Menu
Folder Names
Linux Lite Application names
Desktop Icons
My Computer Menu names

Having completed a fresh install of Linux Lite 6.6, once you have restarted after the first login, full language support will be available across the entire Menu and Sub-Menu system. If there are still Menu entries that are not in your language, then consider contributing a translation to that developers software.

If you'd like to help out with Translations in this Series for the above mentioned areas, please go here https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/translations/ and post a reply with your changes under your Language thread. We have already received a number of submissions and have integrated them quickly into Linux Lite. Thanks for helping the community out There is still much to do, but we've made massive improvements to date.






















Lite Welcome

Thanks to your feedback, we've implemented a check to see if Linux Lite is running in a Live environment or not, and to only display the Install Now button if it is.

Lite Welcome - Live Environment



Lite Welcome - Installed to your computer



We've also added a link to our Free A.I. Chatbot that will give instant support in real time under the Support section:

https://www.linuxliteos.com/chatai/



Other Changes:

- Latest Papirus Icon Theme
- The Hardware Database now has over 85,000 submissions. 100k here we come! https://www.linuxliteos.com/hardware.php
- Latest stable versions of Chrome, LibreOffice, Lite applications etc
- New wallpapers

Plus many other tweaks and changes.

Window Theme: Materia
Icon Theme: Papirus
Font: Roboto Regular

Installation

How do I know if my Windows PC has UEFI?

In Windows Search, type msinfo or msinfo32 and launch the desktop app named System Information. Look for the BIOS Mode item, and if the value for it is UEFI, then you have the UEFI firmware. If it says BIOS Mode Legacy, then that’s the firmware you’re running.

Secure Boot is supported, but unless you know exactly how to handle it, it is a P.I.T.A. at best so I am going to say...you must disable Secure Boot to enable stress free computing.

Some helpful snippets from the latest Help Manual:





UEFI Support link - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/uefi-secure-boot/

Details:

Kernel: 5.15.0-82 ( custom kernels also available via our Repository for versions 3.13 - 6.5 )
Chrome: 116.0
Thunderbird: 102.15
LibreOffice: 7.5.5
VLC: 3.0.16
Gimp: 2.10.30
Base: 22.04.3

Known Issues:

Eject Media prompt is only available at the end of the UEFI install.
Desktop icons - English support only. - FIXED AND TRANSLATED
Dropbox: if you get an error, run the set up twice.
There is NO Grub Edit in Lite Tweaks in this Series for Linux Lite due to an unsolvable issue. Ubuntu will show in the Grub menu if you are dual or more booting. Try Grub Customizer if it annoys you.
Grub menu shows Linux Lite as 'Ubuntu'. See below for more on this.

- Open /etc/default/grub as Administrator.
- Comment out: GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` and leave GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='Linux Lite' uncommented.
- Should look like:
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR='Linux Lite'
#GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
- sudo update-grub

Grub - press the ESC key whilst booting in UEFI mode after your BIOS has posted. Use the SHIFT key if running Linux Lite in Legacy mode.


Other Issues

Please tell us in this thread.

Upgrading

To see if you upgraded successfully to Linux Lite 6.6 open a Terminal and do:

I am curious about that fact that when I start some apps via double-click on desktop I see a small spinning arrow indicating that it is starting up but on other apps I don't.  I am running Linux Lite 6.4 on a Sony VAIO VGN-C290 circa Windows Vista (Intel Core 2, 2GB memory) so it is understandable that apps will startup slowly but some are so slow that I often wonder whether my double-click was ineffective (Startpage browser is an example).  Is there anything I can do to always get an indicator of an app starting up?

Get:1 http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu jammy InRelease [20.3 kB]
Hit:2 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease
Err:1 http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu jammy InRelease
  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 467B942D3A79BD29
Hit:3 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite fluorite InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:5 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:7 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/18...erver-2019 bionic InRelease
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease
Hit:9 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/20...erver-2022 focal InRelease
Hit:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease
Hit:11 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/20.04/prod focal InRelease
Hit:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Reading package lists...
W: GPG error: http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu jammy InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 467B942D3A79BD29
E: The repository 'http://repo.mysql.com/apt/ubuntu jammy InRelease' is not signed.

From the notification:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 4608 (apt-get)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?

Advice needed.......please?

Jim.

Hi everyone,

I don't often use forums, but here I am!!

Hi
I have a file-server and my station comp reach it fine but one of my laptops  do not.  "read: Connection reset by peer"
laptop op LL 6.6 by wifi
[size=78%]station computer  LL 5.8 by cabel [/size]
[size=78%]and I have a laptop whith peppermint old ver thats conect just fine by sshfs on wifi[/size]
[size=78%]I tryed to enable ssh in my [/size]firewall[size=78%] for my wifi but that did not help [/size]
[size=78%]any ideas?  /Ivar[/size]

Hi, I've downloaded some Firefox appimages of different versions and also tested with locally installed latest stable version, but when I try to open a file or whatever menu that needs to load a file it does nothing and the terminal shows this output:

My update error log is below.  It provides a dpkg command to run but when I do so I get a message about needing superuser privileges.  How do I get past this.  I am the only user.

Edit:  Never mind.  I just realized that the "sudo" prefix is the answer.

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not successfully download and install available updates.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into the Software - Support - Updates section for assistance.

============ Log ===========

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.