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add warning or info for users that apt is not supposed to be used for updates #2141

Open Danfro opened 1 year ago

Danfro commented 1 year ago

Many new users try to use apt for updating their system - and of course fail. We need to provide them with information that UT is NOT Ubunut desktop and updates work differently here.

From some discussions in Telegram, there are two options:

I would suggest we (someone) do the simple thing first and improve with UI when possible. This can be done maybe by adding an apt shell script (and symlink apt-get) in /usr/local/bin might work as Alan suggested. But where/which repo? :thinking: