On Sun, Dec 01, 2024 at 04:43:00AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/30/24 9:00 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > "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 > > > > > > If the file systems were fine, then I would've done > > > > dpkg --configure -a > >
Greg's advice is absolutely correct. Occasionally a package will fail to unpack and the command above will essentially fix this. > > 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. > > > > 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' > At that point, I might have stopped. Potentially you don't update often and you've missed the point release upgrade to 12.8 in the last month or so. That might also explain why files were missing, so: apt update ; apt full-upgrade or (my preference but others methods are also valid) apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade > Then > > > root@debian12:/home/richard# apt --fix-broken install <snippage> > > 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. Right, the upgrade you did seems to have worked fine. > Closed terminal and launched Synaptic. No errors *OR* warnings :} > > Thanks to all. > What should I do next ( /etc/debian_version reports 12.7)? apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade to make sure you're up to date then reboot. At that point, /etc/debian-version should read 12.8 and uname -a should give you 6.0-28-amd64 as your kernel version All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater > > > > > > >
