<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> I checked on the python3-future package at <a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com">packages.ubuntu.com</a> and it<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> does exist for 18.04. But I got several error messages while using<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> the search on that web site. I had<span> </span></span><b style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black;background-color:rgb(170,170,255)">to</b><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><span> </span>retry the searches until they<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> succeeded. So I am wondering if the problem may be with the<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> downloading of the index files from the package servers, rather than<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> the packages not being there. If you manually run "apt<span> </span></span><b style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black;background-color:rgb(170,255,170)">update</b><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">", do<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> you get any errors? You might also like<span> </span></span><b style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black;background-color:rgb(170,170,255)">to</b><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none"><span> </span>try apt's repair command:<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(79,76,73);font-family:Lato,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(246,246,246);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">> apt install --fix-broken<span> </span></span><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>That didn't work (I had tried it before), but thanks for the suggestion  ;-)</div><div>  <br></div><div>All is working now.</div><div><br></div><div>To help anyone else that might run into this, I was able to fix it by downloading the .deb packages I needed from <a href="http://pkgs.org">pkgs.org</a> (where there are links to many different distros and releases).   <br></div><div><br></div><div>After I installed them the update went remarkably smoothly given the amount of applications I have running on this machine (it's not just a media server).  The only minor hiccup involved LXDE.  The new version is built against a different codebase than the last one, and gave me some weird results (microscopic fonts and one or two other issues).  After switching to XFCE, all is good, and the machine is rock-solid.</div><div><br></div><div>Take care, everyone.<br></div><div>Bob<br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>__________________________________</div><div><br></div></div></div>