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Natty

3:04 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] networking Wi-Fi works with boot to windows but not Ubuntu By: thewade 4.5;

karel

3:15 AM

dupe

OT crash bug, also unclear

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karel

6:49 AM

OT 20.10

Artur Meinild

7:08 AM

This user is editing posts to remove reference to third party PPA's with "Albert".

ManuelSchneid3r, Germany

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He claims it's "license violation", and I can see he's the author of said program.

However, destructively editing posts here may not be the best way to go with this..

Maybe a mod could talk to him?

This was the particular edit, tried for the second time.. askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits/1288097

andrew.46

8:00 AM

@ArturMeinild I saw the suggestions to come to chat which is an excellent idea. There is also a 2 day cool off from suggested edits in place just while this is sorted...

I had a look here: github.com/albertlauncher/albert and I could not see license details? Anybody else see something I have missed?

I do see some warning about PPAs here: albertlauncher.github.io/installing

Artur Meinild

8:37 AM

@andrew.46 Yes the same - I can't see any licensing issues. I think the OP is worried that the PPA may contain illegitimate code.

Also, I edited the post by mchid for installation from official repos to be updated to match the official instructions from the author.

A: PPA error while installing Albert application launcher in Ubuntu 18.04

Here are some more detailed instructions on how to install albert using the suse repository. Before you begin, you will need to enable the Universe repository. Click here for more info. There are two ways to install albert. Method 1 (grab binary packages directly): Run the following command to i...

Especially the command for adding apt keys was deprecated

I also added explanation on how to extrapolate the answer for all versions of Ubuntu

andrew.46

@ArturMeinild A potential risk always with a PPA, when Ubuntu was my daily driver I preferred to avoid them

Artur Meinild

@andrew.46 Yes, agreed - I don't use it either

SmokeDetector

9:25 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer (62): Convert .dng to .png is not working in Ubuntu 16.04‭ by Libor Skocik‭ on askubuntu.com

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad ns for domain in body, bad keyword in body, blacklisted website in body, potentially bad keyword in username (288): Can I download Adobe Fonts to my computer?‭ by Harper Edward‭ on askubuntu.com

Natty

10:17 AM

[ Natty | Sentinel ] 22.04 KNOWN ISSUE - Can't install the snap version of Krita on Ubuntu 22.04 because it's unable to install prerequisites By: Gunther 4.0;

Artur Meinild

10:31 AM

Dupe: askubuntu.com/questions/1460240/…

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Artur Meinild

12:42 PM

This one doesn't give up easily. I think I've done all I can, keeping it civil.. askubuntu.com/q/1460262/1066942

Natty

1:32 PM