On 11/29/24 12:30 PM, David Wright wrote:
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.
Its cryptic output referred to "ghostscript" for which Synaptic
displayed a red check-box. I tried to remove it and then reinstall with
synaptic which repeatedly complained when I tried to exit asking if it
should discard marked changes. I choose Apply from menu. It responds:
W: Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs10_10.0.0%7edfsg-11%2bdeb12u5_amd64.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.70.132 80]
W: Failed to fetch
http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs10-common_10.0.0%7edfsg-11%2bdeb12u5_all.deb
404 Not Found [IP: 151.101.70.132 80]
I then force exit and switch to terminal mode and do following:
richard@debian12:~$ su
Password:
root@debian12:/home/richard# dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii '
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Architecture Description
+++-=============================================-===================================-============-================================================================================
iU ghostscript 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5
amd64 interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
root@debian12:/home/richard#
followed by
oot@debian12:/home/richard# dpkg -l '*ghostscript*'| grep -v '^ii '
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-================-======================-============-===================================================
iU ghostscript 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 amd64 interpreter for the
PostScript language and for PDF
un ghostscript-cups <none> <none> (no description
available)
root@debian12:/home/richard#
Thank you.
Now what? ?? ??? <groaning grin> ;/
