On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Munir Nassar <nassarmu at gmail.com> wrote: > you can tell apt to try and fix install using "apt -f install", i should > go back to where it had trouble installing and ask questions again. > Except that I wasn't install all the software in question. I was doing $ apt upgrade. That's not quite the same thing. (In fact - - - just tried that - - - no joy. Thanks for the idea though!! Dee > > On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 7:21 AM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Greetings >> >> I am unable to resolve the present mess so I'm asking questions to see if >> there is news (have looked using both duckduck and ms google (who insisted >> in opening porn website when I clicked on the proffered links) and haven't >> found anything useful. >> >> Early last evening I did my $ apt update and was told that I had about >> 240+ packages in my Debian buster (10 or testing) system that were needing >> upgrading. So just before I'm headed out the door for an evening meeting I >> start the process (my high-speed access, being rural, is just a lot short >> of quick!). Got home too timed and so went to bed without check the >> computer status. This morning, I log information on a lot of things >> starting right from wakeup, I go to enter the first bits of stuff and see >> some kind of notice re: apparmor blah blah I read it (ddin't really think >> much about it either sorry) and hit q for the notice to go away and the >> install to start happening. Well after this is completed I check using $ >> dpkg -l | egrep ^ii to see how things went. Well - - - I have a huge list >> conprising most of any useful package that is listed as ii - - - >> incompletely installed and incompletely configured. I picked an innocuous >> packages youtube-dl and tried to use $ apt install --reinstall youtube-dl. >> Usually this clears this incomplete issue - - - but not this time. >> >> Is my system now set up for a huge crash? >> What can I do, or better, what should I do the 'fix' this miasma? >> >> TIA >> >> Dee >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180202/70f745c9/attachment.html>