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Re: Synaptic problem(s)

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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)?

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