apt upgrade only does a partial upgrade on your system and if that's all
you do, your system can get into a place where dependencies get out of
wack and the system breaks.
instead do:
apt full-upgrade
or
apt dist-upgrade
They both do the exact same exact thing, except full upgrade is the new
name for dist upgrade option becuase too many people only did upgrade
because they were afraid that dist-upgrade would actually upgrade their
distribution to the new version... it doesn't. It just tells your
system to upgrade all the packages, where plain old upgrade tells the
system to only upgrade packages that don't require any additional
packages to installed or uninstalled.... which can leave security
problems on your system if the update requires additional packages to be
installed.
If you've been doing only upgrade for a really long time; be prepared
for some broken dependencies that wouldn't have happened if you had done
dist-upgrades instead.... Hopefully apt's dependency calculator will
just take care of it for you and all will be good with the world again.
Brian Cluff
On 9/2/20 3:04 PM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Thanks to Matthew and Michael Butash for suggestions.
>
> I did a new system update:
>
> sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
>
> And I have tried removing and reinstalling chrome,
> but it still won't work.
>
> Everything else seems to be working okay now.
>
> Not sure how to do the "journalctl" thing.
>
> Firefox works fine, but I still hope to get chrome working.
>
> Any other suggestions?
>
>
> ----------------------
> 2009-01 Michael Butash wrote (in part):
>> I've had ibus break, which tends to break everything.
>>
>> Would be worth using journalctl -f as root while launching
>> to see what the system is complaining about >
>>
>> Have you tried a clean user profile? Ibus tends to be
>> user dependent ... to test just to log in as another user
>
> ----------------
>> Aug 31, 2020 joe wrote:
>>> After a Linux Mint update today, I seem to have numerous
>>> problems that I did not have before the update.
>>>
>>> ** Chrome browser won't open at all.
>
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