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The updates shown in Discover Software are os updates, there are packages with "firmware" in the name that need updating, so if you...

Come to think of it, I should have posted a screen shot so y'all could've seen it. I'll do better next time lol..

I echo those responses, Manufacturers firmware updates are not normally available in distribution repositories, and are usual installed...

The above, supplied by @atanere looks to be pretty much what I followed in updating my Dell Inspiron 5770 (2019) laptop a few months...

it wasn't any of those. But now it's disappeared. I'm not sure why. For the others, I've done firmware updates via usb stick a couple...

Red saws he saw it in his Discover software window, and I'm not the one to argue that possibility, could be new? In my Kubuntu, I had...

I think all you need is to put the Dell update file on a USB stick, and then interrupt the boot with F12 and choose the BIOS update...

The kubuntu 22.04 Discover software on Plasma desktop shows a Dell firmware update, but it won't update when I tell it to update all. I...

Something like html2text <file_name>.html | wc -w might do the trick.

I don't know about Kate, but some simple text editors, like xed and gedit, have built-in word count features in a Tools category called...

thanks, I'll give this a whirl and see what happens.

You can add a word count script https://store.kde.org/p/1080768/

thanks, y'all. I'm going to try to use the script first mentioned. I've never actually manually added a script to Kate before, so I've a...

I've been doing some writing lately, and I'm using KATE to do the html. Now the last time I used it, I thought it had natively supported...

I think it works bc it deletes the config file or whatever, then recreates it properly after a reboot? That was my thinking anyway.