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This post is not a criticism but I suppose that noobs with experience with linux since 2006 like myself might get caught out by: * Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc. This Ubuntu based "noble" distro DOES NOT have any browser installed as part of the image. Since I rarely use snaps, as they are controversial, I did not understand at first that "synaptic" will not install Firefox or Chromium. In fact you have to use the CLI terminal to manually install Firefox or Chromium with the "snap" program. May I suggest that the webpage description be amended to: "* Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as, Office tools etc. Chromium and/or Firefox browsers must be manually installed with snap and are not part of the image" or something to that effect. I am now trying to see if I can painlessly find/use a non snap solution to have Firefox-esr or Chromium. Loading of Firefox via snap is slow but does stay updated, but this can cause other problems. Thanks for your help and happy holidays!

This became messy way too fast. I went down a rabbit hole that was the wrong one! The key issue here is that the current "noble" is Ubuntu based and thus is not Debian per say, especially with regards to "snaps". So whoever reads this thread from the O/P I would say the solution is to hope that at some point an Armbian "trixie" distro with desktop will be released, until then use the "bookworm" release if you are allergic to "snaps".

AFAIK, this is only good for installing a desktop,etc, NOT upgrading a version of Debian. I am trying to stay on topic here. So yes, "tasksel" will allow me to install a desktop but what is more pertinent to the situation I have would be to upgrade from "bookworm" to "trixie", if the "noble" release is going to be a stubborn problem for me. There is some other strangeness with the "noble" distro where for example I cannot run "synaptic" from the XFCE menu, instead I have to open a terminal and use "sudo synaptic". I am sure there are other issues as well. I doubt very much it is the pi-hole as the "bookworm" distro of Armbian has no DNS issues, nor do any Linux Mint/Dietpi distros that I currently use. Ditto with the Armbian "trixie IOT" distro currently available, that has no issues with DNS either. It would be ideal if there was a list of all the software that is installed in the current "bookworm" distro such that if I use the "Trixie IOT of Armbian" I can duplicate the desktop setup/installation which includes LibreOffice, Emacs, Firefox, etc. Where can I find that information or is there an install script that is used that can be downloaded for Armbian to install the software suite? Thanks for your help and understanding.

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The "bookworm" distro of Armbian does not have this problem. So what is different with the "noble" distro? I am using the exact SAME hardware/device, "bookworm" works, "noble" does not. As mentioned I am able to ping the local LAN router without any problem with the "noble" distro, but DNS is not working for WAN, with the "noble" distro. The 'bookworm" distro can ping both LAN and WAN "right out of the box" on exactly the same hardware without issue. What else can I do? I sent this yesterday: https://paste.armbian.com/betibuwafi Thanks!

I wish it was that simple! I am on a different computer here...on the exact same network.. and yes I can download that file from here, different machine, different distro. However from the Odroid N2+ it is a different story. I have with a few experiments found that WAN pings would not work from the Odroid N2+ machine with the "noble" distro. But that problem is NOT present with the "bookworm" distro. I thought it was the initial installation, but the problem is persistent in "noble" and never an issue with "bookworm". Thanks for your reply, and any other ideas?

FYI, Device is Odroid N2+ 4 GB. Some months ago I installed/ran: Armbian_25.2.1_Odroidn2_bookworm_current_6.12.13_xfce_desktop.img with no issues that I could not overcome. I re-downloaded it yesterday and re-installed/ran it on another Odroid N2+ 4GB with no issues. However when I try to install/run: Armbian_25.11.1_Odroidn2_noble_current_6.12.58_xfce_desktop.img "* Desktops are very simple and minimal but containing standard features such as Chromium, Firefox browser, Office tools etc." It leads to a number of issues, but the most important one is no internet browsers are installed that are either visible from the Applications Menu, or that can be fixed/updated through either "apt" or by using "synaptic". Trying to update Firefox through "synaptic" leads to this error: W: Failed to fetch http://mirror.vinehost.net/armbian/apt/pool/noble-desktop/f/firefox/firefox_133.0+build2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1armbian1_arm64.deb Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/firefox_9%3a133.0+build2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1armbian1_arm64.deb - open (2: No such file or directory) [IP: 143.20.69.35 80] OR W: Failed to fetch http://armbian.lv.auroradev.org/apt/pool/noble-desktop/f/firefox/firefox_133.0+build2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1armbian1_arm64.deb Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/firefox_9%3a133.0+build2-0ubuntu0.24.04.1~mt1armbian1_arm64.deb - open (2: No such file or directory) [IP: 23.186.113.5 80] etc I have installed and verified the sha256sum on at least 3 microsd cards with the same result for the Armbian_25.11.1_Odroidn2_noble_current_6.12.58_xfce_desktop.img. version. Again the "bookworm" has no issues but "noble" seems to be broken. I tried the Armbian_25.11.1_Odroidn2_noble_current_6.12.58_gnome_desktop.img as well. It has the same issues. I realize that at this time of the year our minds are on the holidays/festive season. I hope that some clarity can be had as I have never seen this type of problem with a linux distro before this. Thank you for your time, patience, and help!