you can tell apt to try and fix install using "apt -f install", i should go back to where it had trouble installing and ask questions again. On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 7:21 AM, o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor at gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings > > I am unable to resolve the present mess so I'm asking questions to see if > there is news (have looked using both duckduck and ms google (who insisted > in opening porn website when I clicked on the proffered links) and haven't > found anything useful. > > Early last evening I did my $ apt update and was told that I had about > 240+ packages in my Debian buster (10 or testing) system that were needing > upgrading. So just before I'm headed out the door for an evening meeting I > start the process (my high-speed access, being rural, is just a lot short > of quick!). Got home too timed and so went to bed without check the > computer status. This morning, I log information on a lot of things > starting right from wakeup, I go to enter the first bits of stuff and see > some kind of notice re: apparmor blah blah I read it (ddin't really think > much about it either sorry) and hit q for the notice to go away and the > install to start happening. Well after this is completed I check using $ > dpkg -l | egrep ^ii to see how things went. Well - - - I have a huge list > conprising most of any useful package that is listed as ii - - - > incompletely installed and incompletely configured. I picked an innocuous > packages youtube-dl and tried to use $ apt install --reinstall youtube-dl. > Usually this clears this incomplete issue - - - but not this time. > > Is my system now set up for a huge crash? > What can I do, or better, what should I do the 'fix' this miasma? > > TIA > > Dee > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180202/4b2eadfd/attachment.html>