On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 07:55:37 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> Running Debian 12.7 with MATE
> When launching Synaptic I get a message saying
> [ You have 1 broken package on your system!"
> Use the "Broken" filter to locate it. ]
> Synaptic's Help isn't helpful :{
> It also reports packages to be updated.
>
> Also started to install gnumeric and it wanted to remove some files I
> associate with printer drivers and also ghostscript.
>
> To investigate I searched for it and Synaptic had a red filled box to
> the left of its name.
>
> I did a power off/on restart. Still the same.
>
> What should I do now?
> I suspect using apt &/or cousins would be more informative.\
> Never used them.
>
> Help please.
> [ learned >60 years ago - If you don't know what you're doin *DON'T*!!!]
$ dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii '
may give you an idea of which packages are broken.
Cheers,
David.
