System update corrupted system

[Douglas McGarrett]

On 6/18/21 3:51 PM, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 19:21:00 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Obviously, they do _not_, but OTOH, if you want a quiet life, run the
>> LTS version, not the short-term one.
> Actually I build lxpanel for 16.04 LTS in 2019 myself, at that time
> 16.04 LTS was still supported. However, the weather report service used
> by lxpanel was discontinued as a free service. It worked when I
> installed the LTS, but got broken some day and seemingly no official
> package ever fixed it by a backport or at best, if it got ever a
> backported patch, the weeks or moth to late for the users.
You can sign up to receive the National Weather Service from the US 
government for
the area you live in--or any area you may be interested in--my area is 
Rocky Point, NY,
on Long Island, and the URL I use is
https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.95222464935049&lon=-72.93118025638873#.YM0hyCUpCV5
So you can see how it works. Put in your own location. Simple enough, 
and free, as you requested.
--doug
>
> [weremouse at moonstudio src]$ dpkg-deb -I lxpanel_0.10.0-1_amd64.deb
>   new debian package, version 2.0.
>   size 1255382 bytes: control archive=313 bytes.
>         0 bytes,     0 lines      conffiles
>       203 bytes,     9 lines      control
>   Package: lxpanel
>   Priority: extra
>   Section: checkinstall
>   Installed-Size: 4460
>   Maintainer: Weremouse <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
>   Architecture: amd64
>   Version: 0.10.0-1
>   Provides: lxpanel
>   Description: LXDE panel
>
> At the moment >= 18.04 lxpanel is in universe and it probably was for
> 16.04, too.
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