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Questions about 19.10 are off-topic on Ask Ubuntu. Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) was a non-LTS version released on October 17, 2019. It became End Of Life (EOL) on July 17, 2020.

Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine) was released on October 17, 2019 and became EOL (End Of Life) on July 17, 2020. Questions about 19.10 are off-topic on Ask Ubuntu.

Notable features include:

  • Linux kernel 5.3
  • Gnome 3.34, including:
    • PulseAudio 13.0
  • Added support for WPA3
  • Support for ZFS as the root filesystem is added as an experimental feature in 19.10

Release notes

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How does sudo handle $HOME differently since 19.10?

In Ubuntu releases prior to Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine, when I run a command with sudo, that command receives my home directory in the $HOME environment variable. This is the behavior I have long expected and warned other people about. If I want sudo…
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How to remove snap completely without losing the Chromium browser?

I am wondering whether or not there is a way to completely remove snap from Ubuntu 19.10 without losing the ability to install important applications like Chromium. When I just recently updated to the newest Ubuntu release I realized that the…
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Ubuntu 19.10 freezes and lags reguarly

Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10 my system freezes/lags regularly. The mouse, keyboard and screen are completely stuck, after a few seconds it "unfreezes" again. Sometimes it repeats the input I did. For example if I type "F" in a text field it…
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How do I hide the icon for a mounted volume from the dock on Ubuntu 19.10 and later?

I just upgraded from Ubuntu 19.04 to Ubuntu 19.10. This made that my second internal HDD show up in the launcher bar or Ubuntu Dock, which it did not before. I read that I should mount it to /mnt instead of /media, but this device was auto-mounted…
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"Invalid package information" error when upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04

I am trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 19.10 to Ubuntu 20.04 but when I run the update, in the second stage this error pops: Invalid package information After updating your package information, the essential package 'ubuntu-minimal' could not be…
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grub_file_filters not found after Ubuntu 19.10 upgrade

I upgraded Ubuntu from 19.04 to 19.10. The upgrade went without errors but after restart grub throws an error on startup and goes into rescu mode error: symbol 'grub_file_filters' not found. Entering rescue mode... grub rescue> It's a physical…
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How do I know which NVIDIA driver I need?

I need to use NVIDIA drivers, and I used the nvidia-smi command to check which NVIDIA I have, but this was the output: Command 'nvidia-smi' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install nvidia-utils-390 # version 390.138-0ubuntu0.19.10.1,…
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"Authentication required to refresh system repositories" in Ubuntu 19.10

If one of the users in our group tries to login to his desktop computer, he gets a popup "Authentication required to refresh system repositories". When I type in my administrator password in this popup, the popup does not disappear. It seems that…
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No background options other than default pictures

I am using freshly installed Ubuntu 19.10 on a Dell Precision 7530 laptop. Under settings - background, I cannot change the background to anything other that the default pictures. According to Ubuntu Desktop Guide » Settings » Display & screen »…
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Some applications on Ubuntu 19.10 very slow to start

My relatively fresh Ubuntu 19.10 on a top notebook is running flawlessly, but some applications are really slow to start. For now it's keepassX, filezilla, deadbeef. Both takes about 30 seconds to show it's window, but after that both are blazing…
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Integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65

so I just uninstall KDE Neon because of a problem and tried to install it again but i got integrity: Problem loading X.509 certificate -65 and the boot stuck/freeze. I thought it was KDE Neon error, but then I tried installing ubuntu 19.10 and got…
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How to install PostgreSQL 13 in Ubuntu?

How to install PostgreSQL-13 in Ubuntu 20.04?
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I am currently using 19.04 and I got "No new release found for 19.10"

As you can see in the image above, I tried to update to 19.10 and it says that No new release found I checked the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades to see if the Prompt is LTS but it is still normal. What would be your advice? UPDATE: I…
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19.10: Does gvfsd-admin require authentication?

I have a mysql 8 running on an ubuntu 19.10 on a desktop computer (a new think station). Computer has a dual boot and two SSD hard drives (500gb and 1TB), both of then partitioned. In the small one I have the OSs and the big one is reserved to data.…
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gnome-desktop-item-edit: command not found on Ubuntu 19.10 and later even with the 'gnome-panel' package installed

I installed Ubuntu 19.10 and have issues trying to create a desktop icon with gnome-desktop-item-edit. $ sudo gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new sudo: gnome-desktop-item-edit: command not found $ which gnome-panel …
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