On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my workstation > was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go 8->9->10->11. I > tried the first of those steps, and things did not go well in a number of > ways... > > For some reason, the software decided to remove virtualbox. Which is a real > problem, because it's inside a virtual machine that I do all of my mail, so > I couldn't get at my mail for a while. In Synaptic Package Manager if I try > to install it I get the following error message: > > "Package virtualbox has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never > uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of > sources.list" > > I got temporarily past this by installing 8 on this laptop I'm currently > typimg on. Some things are decidedly less convenient. > > Firefox is majorly different, apparently having gone from 68.9.0 --> > 78.14.0esr. It no longer uses the font that I'm telling it to, and for some > odd reason won't play any youtube videos any more. Instead I see a message > on the screen that says "if video doesn't start momentarily restart your > device". Huh? > > Konqueror is also broken, I get "Could not start proess Unable to create > io-slave: klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_file'"... > > Trying to open a file with Okular gets me a similar message. > > I don't see any way to back out of these changes, or any obvious place to > look for where the problems are. Suggestions welcomed. > >
Hi Roy, On the broken machine: can you give us the output of /etc/debian_version What's the kernel version it's currently running - uname -a should give you that. Firefox _will_ be majorly different: it's one of the packages where we have to continue to track upstream's -esr version because we can't backport security fixes. What amount of output does an apt-get update give you? If you can give us more info, we can perhaps help you better. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater > -- > Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and > ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can > be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" > - > Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James > M Dakin >
