Wait - are using apt or dpkg for the updating?  My understanding of Mint is that you need to use update manager or the dependency thing can bite you.

Rusty

From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Butash
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2018 4:06 PM
To: joe@actionline.com; PLUG Phoenix List
Subject: Re: Mint update failure ...

Failed apt updates are usually from some dependency check.  These aren't always easy, have caused me to change distributions for less, but usually require some regressive cleanup.  See what didn't install prior in the process, and otherwise try to install the package manually to see why it's failing.  It's generally a bug, but can be varying degrees of problematic.

There is probably more to the logs than you pasted here for prior failures.

-mb

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:01 PM Joe Lowder <joe@actionline.com> wrote:

Today, as I did an update on two of my Linux Mint computers,
one worked perfectly, and the other gave me this error:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-artwork-common_1.8.1.2_all.deb:
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2

What can I do to correct this problem?



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