{"id":1709,"date":"2018-01-27T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T21:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2018-01-29T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T14:16:08","slug":"struggles-with-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2018\/01\/27\/struggles-with-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggles with Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have Ubuntu 17.04 installed on one of my NUC machines as a place to run Linux code. I haven&#8217;t used it in a while and now I&#8217;m finding that it fails to connect with its apt-get repositories and cannot update to 17.10. I&#8217;ve done enough google digging and come up with nothing convincing and so I&#8217;m on the cusp of blowing everything up and loading it clean.<\/p>\n<p>I think I may just go with the LTS version 16.04.3 as I expect that will have longer useful life and be easier to upgrade to version 18 when it drops. I&#8217;m mildly tempted to go to 17.10 and just accept that upgrades to Linux are really clean installs. Not thrilled with that as it means reinstalling everything else each time but I&#8217;m finding that I don&#8217;t do enough Linux work to maintain the skills to dig deep and fix the routine issues that pop up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have Ubuntu 17.04 installed on one of my NUC machines as a place to run Linux code. I haven&#8217;t used it in a while and now I&#8217;m finding that it fails to connect with its apt-get repositories and cannot update to 17.10. I&#8217;ve done enough google digging and come up with nothing convincing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2018\/01\/27\/struggles-with-ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Struggles with Ubuntu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog","category-general-technical","category-sandbox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-rz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}