In attempting to install my HP P1606dn printer, I learned that an additional piece of code beyond the HPLIP 3.20.11 provided materials is required.  To install this support module, HP provides HPLIP-3.20.11-plugin.run, a python script.  This script uses platform.dist()[0] to obtain the name of the distribution.  The error message is "AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'dist'".

The function is in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (1.4.0), and "pip install distro" reports "Requirement already satisfied: distro in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (1.4.0)"

I have a HP 16 gig USB drive which works fine on my Windows machine, even on my DVD player, and also on my old Mac. It is formatted FAT 32. Linux Lite refuses to admit it even exists. Plug it in and nothing; it doesn't show up with any command I can find, and I've been searching for the last half hour online. Running lsblk, for example gives nothing but the other devices I have. Ditto for fdisk -l.

Anybody have any idea what might be going on with this? The Disks program can't see it, Gparted can't see it, but these other OS systems work fine with it.

The Calibre e-book reader from supported repositories of LL 3.8 is stuck on version 2.55. Is there a reliable way of getting a newer 32-bit version? I really enjoy Calibre on my little Acer Aspire One running LinuxLite 3.8 (as opposed to a bigger laptop, not fitting into a lap). Should I run the instructions for Linux on the Calibre web site or should I add another (unknown) repository to the updates? I am not afraid of running command lines, but the numerous dependencies are off-putting. And I expect the restore points shoud guard me against disasters. NOTE: I use Calibre for open EPUB books only.

Hi all, I get these errors. Can someone help me on this pls? Thx

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://dfgkh547-jsdfv8.iyhkj.tk/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

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

Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Ign:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mmbossoni-gmail/emu/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [109 kB]
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:6 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite emerald InRelease
Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu focal InRelease
Err:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mmbossoni-gmail/emu/ubuntu focal Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.85 80]
Err:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu focal Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.85 80]
Hit:10 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:11 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu focal InRelease
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/mmbossoni-gmail/emu/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/morphis/anbox-support/ubuntu focal Release' does not have a Release file.
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OK SOLVED!
I followed the instructions of ihinkican -> https://dfgkh547-jsdfv8.iyhkj.tk/forums/insta...g-updates/

I know it's possible, because I did it a few years ago when I started using LL. I can't remember how to do it and searching the form has not given me an answer, perhaps because I didn't use the right terms, but I've tried several. I wanted to try Nemo, and it works but I have to launch it separately each time. I don't even know if I would want to keep it as the default because it's so clumsy to do this way.

Hi 
Do i have too do anything about this message?"
sshfs [email protected]:/mnt/arkivpool /home/ivar/nas
The authenticity of host '192.168.1.167 (192.168.1.167)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is SHA256:u7uDzoHVrcU7+0EleNS6+lpWxS71DKSCMgOtfzuBFIk.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes"
It workt anyway so what is it about? hope for anny comment / Ivar

I have 2 nearly identical computers, both running LL5 and with the exact same set of original and added programs. My #2 computer is mostly a backup to my #1 and doesn't even get turned on very often. Yesterday, after about a month of non-use, I fired up the #2 and did a sizable update.

Since that update, my single bottom taskbar has been unresponsive. The icons on both the far left and far right operate, but when I run a program, the center part remains blank -- no notification of anything running.

Since I often have multiple programs running simultaneously in any desktop, I can use the ALT-TAB to pull up any minimized programs, but I would prefer to be able to just click on its icon in the taskbar, as I did before yesterday's update.

I don't recall ever having to activate this feature to make it work. I assume that having the little taskbar icons show is a given. So, any help in getting my taskbar to once again be active would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for any advice.

I played in the last few days with suricata ids/ips and today i come across something terrible if this thing happens on any LinuxLite and not only on my end. Updating from the menu icon "install updates" seems to trigger an alert from suricata rule 2013028 emerging threats. At first i thought is a false positive but then i saw each and every time i click that update icon from the menu it triggers that alert and it send some outbound connection toward google domain ip 142.250.178 and 216.x.x.x For example the alert looks like this: "[1:2013028:5] ET POLICY curl User-Agent Outbound [**] [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priority: 2] {TCP} 192.168.x.x:36200 -> 142.250.178.14:80" .To check further the problem i blocked with UFW outbound connections toward those ip ranges coresponding to google domains for port 80. The result was that when i clicked again on "install updates" i get the message your pc is not connected to the internet. Tried several times to be sure and same result. Tried to update via terminal and everything seems to work ok via terminal. I disabled firewall and clicked again now it works again of course triggering again that alert. Now the question is, is it ok to let google know when i make or not make updates? For me this is a huge privacy issue and hope that this happens only on my end so the question you guys have the same outcome when blocking google port 80? I use youtube a lot this days so my id can be easily asociated with my update schedule. Thank you in advance and hope i did not bored to death anyone with this one  :

I like running LL on one of my machines so much that I want to update/upgrade/convert my two other Linux machines.

I particularity want the LL desktop, and I expect to loose XCFE and Gtk customization.

I want to preserve all the applications I've installed, SMB/networking, MythTV, GCC build environments, etc.

Any suggestions how to approach this? 

How do i manually configure proxy settings here. I'm using pdanet to share my mobile unlimited internet connection.for now i'm using this net connection only in Firefox by changing its proxy settings.but it would be really helpful if i could use this network connection in the entire os. Ubuntu has a GUI for this task  and i don't know how to get this done in our xfce environment.can you guys help me?