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Ubuntu 22.04 – Migrating from Firefox snap to Firefox apt

Using snaps might have its advantages, but the amount of RAM and CPU cycles that Firefox seems to take made me want to switch. The browser certainly feels more responsive. Remove the Firefox snap. You need to change the Firefox apt priority to avoid the snap version being re-installed. And install the Firefox apt. When… Read More: Ubuntu 22.04 – Migrating from Firefox snap to Firefox apt »

Ubuntu: apt upgrades failing with “Cannot initiate the connection to ports.ubuntu.com”

While doing a distro upgrade with I kept getting failures half-way stating The errors showed several IPv6 addresses that couldn’t be reached. My router supports IPv6, but not my ISP. Somehow I was expecting that the router would be doing the translation or DNS resolution between the two but this wasn’t the case. Disabling IPv6… Read More: Ubuntu: apt upgrades failing with “Cannot initiate the connection to… »

Ubuntu/Debian: Not enough free space on disk ‘/boot’ when updating the OS

My /boot partition is only 512MB and I get this error message every now and then when updating: Not enough free space The upgrade needs a total of xx.x M free space on disk ‘/boot’. Please free at least an additional xx.x M of disk space on ‘/boot’. You can remove old kernels using ‘sudo… Read More: Ubuntu/Debian: Not enough free space on disk ‘/boot’ when updating… »