Request for simplified instructions for downloading and? installing .tar.gz applications - Ventoy

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:19:56 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 12/8/22 18:39, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Freitag, dem 12.08.2022 um 18:25 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
> >>
> >>
> >> Before I updated to 22.04.1, I ensured that 20.04 was updated, and
> >> the
> >> upgrade to 22.04.1 proceeded and booted without a problem, on my i5
> >> laptop with 16GB RAM (Acer Aspire 5750G) similarly, with a 20.10
> >> installation on an i3 desktop with 32GB RAM (Medion - from ALDI,
> >> bought
> >> when they had the computers available here).
> >>
> >> But, the ubuntu-mate.org web site still does not (at the time of
> >> writing
> >> this message) have the 22.04.1 iso available for download; it has the
> >> 22.04, but, not the point 1 version.
> >>
> >> The 16.04 installation, is on my Acer Aspire V3772G; i7 with 32GB
> >> RAM.
> >>
> >> All my Linux that I am currently running, is UbuntuMATE.
> >>
> >> When I find that ubuntu-mate.org has the  22.04.1 iso available for
> >> download, I will add it to my Ventoy drive.
> > 
> > the mate release is here:
> > http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/22.04.1/release/
> > 
> > it is probably simply not linked from their website yet, but it has
> > been tested and released by the ubuntu release team ...
> > 
> > though if you are already on 22.04 on your machines via a do-release-
> > update call or through the update-manager, there is no reason to use
> > any iso, you will just rceive the updates automatically and are already
> > on 22.04.1 anyway ...
> > 
> > ciao
> > 	oli
> > 
> > 
> 
> Hello.
> 
> The reason for wanting the iso image, is to be able to show and install 
> it on computers that do not already have it.
> 
> An example, is my wife's current computer that has MS Windows 10 or 11 
> on it - she has been considering installing Linux Mint on it, but, a 
> recent article in The Register (to which I have referred her, which 
> article, she is yet to read), tells how 22.04.1 (specifically, from my 
> understanding, the point release), has enhanced abilities for dealing 
> with MS Windows stuff, including, with the NTFS file format. She does 
> not have anything other than MS Windows installed on it, as yet, but, 
> has shrunk the Windows partition, in preparation for installing Linux, 
> and, an iso is what is required to progress it.

Unless you want to run as a Live ISO, there isn't really a need for a 
point-release ISO.  Once you install the ISO, you immediately do an apt 
update/full-upgrade, and presto, you are up to the latest point release.


> 
> Also, I have a laptop that I was given, that does not have an OS 
> installed on it, (and,  I was told, the battery in it is dead), and, 
> when we get a battery system that will provide UPS for the house, for 
> which, I am waiting for the installation (it is scheduled, but, weather 
> dependent), I am wanting to find what OS's I can install on it (and, 
> that I can use). The grid electricity supply here, is a bit erratic, so 
> it is best to have a UPS for computers that do not have incorporate 
> usable battery to stop system failures when the electricity grid fails, 
> which happens frequently.
> 

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