[kwlug-disc] Why would an LTS install non-LTS kernels?

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

Found another issue.

Because of HWE, the vivid drivers were installed by default. They
caused issues with certain gtk applications (Firefox, Stellarium).
When pressing Alt-Tab, the Firefox windows would flicker. For
Stellarium, it flickered constantly, without any action being taken.
The equivalent Qt applications (konqueror, KStars) were unaffected.

The solution was to install the default xserver-xorg-* packages that
do not have -lts-vivid in their names, and purge the vivid ones.

apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-core-lts-trusty xserver-xorg-lts-trusty
xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-trusty xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-trusty
libegl1-mesa-lts-trusty

It was a bit convoluted, because aptitude refused to do what I wanted,
displaying lots of conflicts. Good old apt-get got the job done
though.

Sheesh ...
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