As you well know, Ubuntu version 14.04 is LTSIn other words, Long Support, a condition that the Ubuntu development team may well maintain but that other teams cannot maintain as well, not by will but due to a lack of volunteers. This must have been wanted to reflect the Lubuntu development team that has created a PPA repository so that its users can have a way to access packages considered as LTS without having to wait for them to be uploaded officially. These LTS packages are current versions of packages considered essential in the distribution and that have long support such as the Linux kernel, critical desktop packages such as PCmanfm or from programs as essential as Abiword.
This PPA repository has been created by Julien Lavergne and initially it will be a maintenance repository, since the idea is that in rapid periods of time, these packages become part of the official distribution repositories. At the moment, the objective of being important has already been achieved, since in addition to LTS packages, the new Lavergne repository has improvements in the artwork and in some bugs such as the famous nm-applet bug, a bug that did not allow us to access the network manager from the desktop. It seems that by incorporating this repository and updating the distribution, our Lubuntu fixes itself and this «problematic»Applet.
How to install the PPA repository?
For those of you who have already added a repository via terminal, the process will be easy, for those who are doing it for the first time, what we have to do is open a terminal (CONTROL + T) and write the following:
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa: lubuntu-dev / staging
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
With this the update will begin, if you have a slow connection, wait as it will take a while. Ah! If you have someone you know who uses Lubuntu, recommend this repository, it is almost essential to have.
Hello, I did what you say, and I got the following:
Cannot add PPA: 'ppa: ~ lubuntu-dev / ubuntu / staging'.
The Team fears: '~ lubuntudev' has no ppa named 'ubuntu / staging'.
Please choose the following available PPAs:
* 'backports-staging': backports-staging
* 'Canary': 'canary'
It happens to me exactly the same as to Jose Rodriguez
I have signed up for this 'Ubunlog' although for now I am only interested in the information related to Lubuntu (not all of Ubuntu), which is what I was able to install on my 2003 laptop, since Ubuntu (at least 20.04) kept flashing on my screen and no matter how much I searched Internet has been impossible for me to solve (and on the landline, I couldn't get any more definition than a "sad 800×600"). Now I was looking for 'synaptics' and I had to settle for 'synaptic', since I couldn't install the 'synaptic_0.84.6.tar.xz' package and it doesn't seem to be easy at all, but I found this page that seemed like a good solution. Although it seems like a big disappointment. A shame.
(Sorry, I can't correct the previous comment directly and I hope this new comment is useful for this)
'synaptic' is precisely the Software Center that by default seems to be in Ubuntu (as I read on the same page 'ubunlog": https://ubunlog.com/como-instalar-un-programa-en-ubuntu/, so much of the previous comment would be wrong).
I realize that the screen definition in the fixed one I think that with several attempts, I got a 1024, but from there I did not pass and today it is still very little, with Lubuntu, those flickering problems on the laptop were removed and even with two monitors.