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Re: Synaptic problem(s)

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On 11/29/24 12:30 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 28 Nov 2024 at 07:55:37 (-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.
>>
>> Also started to install gnumeric and it wanted to remove some files I
>> associate with printer drivers and also ghostscript.
>>
>> To investigate I searched for it and Synaptic had a red filled box to
>> the left of its name.
>>
>> I did a power off/on restart. Still the same.
>>
>> What should I do now?
>> I suspect using apt &/or cousins would be more informative.\
>> Never used them.
>>
>> Help please.
>> [ learned >60 years ago - If you don't know what you're doin *DON'T*!!!]
> 
>    $ dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii '
> 
> may give you an idea of which packages are broken.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 
> 

Its cryptic output referred to "ghostscript" for which Synaptic 
displayed a red check-box. I tried to remove it and then reinstall with 
synaptic which repeatedly  complained when I tried to exit asking if it 
should discard marked changes. I choose Apply from menu. It responds:

> W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs10_10.0.0%7edfsg-11%2bdeb12u5_amd64.deb
>   404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.70.132 80]
> 
> 
> W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool/updates/main/g/ghostscript/libgs10-common_10.0.0%7edfsg-11%2bdeb12u5_all.deb
>   404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.70.132 80]
> 
> 

I then force exit and switch to terminal mode and do following:

> richard@debian12:~$ su
> Password: 
> root@debian12:/home/richard#  dpkg -l | grep -v '^ii '
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                                          Version                             Architecture Description
> +++-=============================================-===================================-============-================================================================================
> iU  ghostscript                                   10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5              amd64        interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
> root@debian12:/home/richard# 

followed by

> oot@debian12:/home/richard# dpkg -l '*ghostscript*'| grep -v '^ii '
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name             Version                Architecture Description
> +++-================-======================-============-===================================================
> iU  ghostscript      10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u5 amd64        interpreter for the PostScript language and for PDF
> un  ghostscript-cups <none>                 <none>       (no description available)
> root@debian12:/home/richard# 
> 

Thank you.
Now what? ?? ??? <groaning grin> ;/

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  Re: Synaptic problem(s) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-11-29 19:40 +0100
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