After a freezing phase that started last March, Ubuntu 24.04 codenamed Noble Numbat was released last April. It comes with a great deal of new features, listed in the release release notes.
As a Mantic Minotaur user, the option to update to Noble Numbat was presented in May, in a window that popped up after a regular update. At first it did not work, so I hit sudo do-release-upgrade to better understand the problem. I quickly figured out that that the issue stems from a package that I set on hold. After unholding it, the updating process worked like a charm.
Throughout the process, several Personal Package Archive (PPA) repositories were deactivated (the source files files were appended with a distUpgrade suffix). After the release, I took this opportunity to go through those repositories, conduct necessary pruning, and updated the remaining PPA.
As I use R on a daily basis, my R setup is of most importance. Over the last year, I installed and reinstalled R packages in various (and inconsistent) ways. So I decided to remove them all and reinstall them properly using the amazing r2u initiative by Dirk Eddelbuettel. Once installed, I install the following 3 packages to install numerous packages I frequently use:
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That’s all folks 😄!