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Ubuntu is a Linux distribution based on Debian and developed by Canonical.

Official documentation can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/.

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Ubuntu Desktop

Installation

Help Wanted

This section needs additional guidance.

Use the Official Ubuntu Documentation page to find the official installation guide for the version and platform you desire to install. For example, the installation guide for 18.04 of amd64 is here.

Kubuntu

Disabling auto update

/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";

Troubleshooting

Fixing broken packages

Sometime you will get an error like: E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. 

To solve, you can try installing aptitude  and trying aptitude install <package> 

The aptitude utility has more powerful conflict resolution abilities.

See issue: https://askubuntu.com/a/451078

Listing installed packages

apt list --installed > installed.txt 

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