On 19/01/2020 20:04, Laurie Brown wrote:

On 19/01/2020 18:39, Michael Goddard wrote:

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I use Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and whilst trying to use kernel update, I caused the following msg.    "You have 3 broken packages on your system.   Use the 'Broken' filter to locate them."

Somewhat beyond my limited Linux experience.   Any advice on next step, or should I just ignore this kernel update, would be much appreciated.

Tia

Michael

Hi Michael,

Can you explain what you mean by "use kernel update", please?

Cheers, Laurie.

Hi Laurie:

This came from Mint 'Update' service and when I tried to instal it I got msg as listed.

I haven't come across "Broken filter" previously, so hence my present fix as I am unable to instal this kernel update unless I locate/fix/remove '3 broken packages'.

I'd be happy to carry on with present kernel installed, but probably this is not the correct 'option' going forward!

Thanks for your help.

Michael

On 20/01/2020 14:36, Laurie Brown wrote:

On 20/01/2020 14:01, Michael Goddard wrote:

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Hi Laurie:

This came from Mint 'Update' service and when I tried to instal it I got msg as listed.

I haven't come across "Broken filter" previously, so hence my present fix as I am unable to instal this kernel update unless I locate/fix/remove '3 broken packages'.

I'd be happy to carry on with present kernel installed, but probably this is not the correct 'option' going forward!

Thanks for your help.

Michael

Kernel management is mostly transparent in LMC, and you don't need to worry about it. That said, the error you're seeing is relatively common, and probably not related to the kernel update anyway.

Assuming you're comfortable working at CLI, try this:

sudo apt-get -f install

After that, refresh and check update manager again and see what it wants to update.

If that doesn't work, shout!

Cheers, Laurie.

PS. In case you don't know, LMC is based on Ubuntu and often searching for a solution for Ubuntu can help find the fix.

Hi Laurie:

Many thanks for your latest on this item.

I've made a note of your recent effort and will battle on somewhat carefully.

My reason for this is that my present kernel is linux-5.3.0.26 and Update Manager has provided current item which is listed as linux-5.3.0,26.95 and after my exploration as to its makeup, I've finally found a comment which reads "Ignore the current update for this package"!

I'll put this matter aside for the moment, but I'm most grateful for all your time and effort, and I'm most appreciative of the ALUG spirit.

Michael