Re: Mint update fails ... Thank you!

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Author: Stephen Partington
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To: joe, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Mint update fails ... Thank you!
Develop our google skills and bludgeon our heads on the desk in frustration
until we do?

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:01 AM Joe Lowder <> wrote:

> Thank you! What would we all do without
> our incredible PLUG friends?
>
> ---------------
> On Tue, July 16, 2019 at 7:21 am, Stephen Partington wrote:
> > to expand on what Brian has, my normal update routine for when I am
> > wanting to update all the things. sudo apt update && sudo apt -y
> > full-upgrade && sudo apt -y autoremove This setpset will update your
> > sources, run a full upgrade automatically selecting yes, then remove
> > unneeded packages also automatically selecting yes. the && allows you to
> > issue 3 commands in the same line to be handled sequentially.
>
>
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 10:03 PM Brian Cluff <> wrote:
> >> All those errors look like it tried to do an update, but your systems
> >> package database was out of sync with the server's package database. You
> >> should be able to fix it by making sure that your system download a
> >> current package database, or from the command line running:
> >>
> >> sudo apt update ; sudo apt -f install
> >>
> >> Once you've run that everything should start working again. You may
> >> even want to do:
> >>
> >> sudo apt full-upgrade
> >>
> >> to get your system completely up to date.
> >>
> >> Brian Cluff
>
>
> >> On 7/15/19 6:35 PM, Joe Lowder wrote:
> >>
> >>> What do I need to do to get a mint update to work?
> >>> Please view these screenshots that disclose the problem?
> >>>
> >>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/mup1.jpg
> >>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/mup2.jpg
> >>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/mup3.jpg
>
>
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