On 11/30/24 9:00 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 14:45:01 +0000, Joe wrote:
I don't know if it helps, but the current ghostscript on my Deb 12 is
version 12u6, not 12u5.
What happens when you try:
apt upgrade ghostscript
"apt upgrade" does not take a package name as an argument. It tries
to upgrade *all* of the packages you have.
To upgrade a single package, use "install" instead.
apt update
apt install ghostscript
However, in Richard's case, the package is in state iU (Unpacked),
which indicates that something failed during the installation,
around the Unpacking step.
The first thing I would've checked is "df". Make sure there are no
file systems running out of space.
If the file systems were fine, then I would've done
dpkg --configure -a
to retry whatever failed during or after the Unpacking step. If
that fails, then you should see a message telling you why. Reporting
that message would be an important detail when bringing the issue to
the mailing list.
If that command does nothing at all (because the package isn't ready
for configuration), then I might try removing it, or I might try
"apt update; apt install ghostscript" depending on which one I feel is
more likely to work at that moment.
In terminal mode as root I did "apt update" which concluded:=
Fetched 62.1 MB in 30s (2,070 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
77 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
N: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease' changed its
'Version' value from '12.7' to '12.8'
also
root@debian12:/home/richard# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 1899716 0 1899716 0% /dev
tmpfs 386696 1540 385156 1% /run
/dev/sda9 23315280 14930176 7175404 68% /
tmpfs 1933464 488 1932976 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 8 5112 1% /run/lock
/dev/sda6 14348168 24 13597456 1% /Bible
/dev/sda8 65873764 53583092 8918864 86% /Deb9Home
tmpfs 386692 72 386620 1% /run/user/1000
Then
root@debian12:/home/richard# apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
ghostscript libgs10 libgs10-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
ghostscript libgs10 libgs10-common
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 3,111 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64
ghostscript amd64 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 [57.5 kB]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64
libgs10 amd64 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 [2,467 kB]
Get:3 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security/main amd64
libgs10-common all 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6 [587 kB]
Fetched 3,111 kB in 1s (2,268 kB/s)
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 180583 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../ghostscript_10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking ghostscript (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6) over (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libgs10_10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libgs10:amd64 (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6) over (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4)
...
Preparing to unpack .../libgs10-common_10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6_all.deb ...
Unpacking libgs10-common (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6) over (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u4)
...
Setting up libgs10-common (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6) ...
Setting up libgs10:amd64 (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6) ...
Setting up ghostscript (10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u6) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.36-9+deb12u8) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
root@debian12:/home/richard#
All seems well so far. "dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii ' " reported no problems.
Closed terminal and launched Synaptic. No errors *OR* warnings :}
Thanks to all.
What should I do next ( /etc/debian_version reports 12.7)?
