On Thu, Nov 28, 2024 at 07:55:37AM -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.
>
Screenshot please Richard - if we can't see it, we can't diagnose it.
> Also started to install gnumeric and it wanted to remove some files I
> associate with printer drivers and also ghostscript.
>
Details please.
> To investigate I searched for it and Synaptic had a red filled box to the
> left of its name.
>
Synaptic is a front end to apt. Use command line apt to see what it
reports?
> I did a power off/on restart. Still the same.
>
What did you expect this would have fixed: nothing had changed.
> What should I do now?
> I suspect using apt &/or cousins would be more informative.\
> Never used them.
>
You might find that the details of exactly what's broken would be more
tractable, yes.
> Help please.
> [ learned >60 years ago - If you don't know what you're doin *DON'T*!!!]
>
All best, as ever,
Andy
(amaca...@debian.org)
>
