Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

[Michael Fothergill <michael.fothergill@googlemail.com>]

>>> Do you have this package installed? What does "apt-cache policy
>>> linux-firmware-nonfree" say?
>>>
>>
>> ​It says unable to locate linux-firmware-nonfree
>>
>> ie it's not installed I guess
>
> That message means that apt-cache can't find that package at all. If
> you have recently added non-free to sources.list you will need to
> run "apt-get update". After doing that, it should be available to
> install via "apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree".

I noticed that the sources.list contents which were posted listed
'nonfree', with no hyphen.

Every other sources.list reference to non-free I've ever seen has
included the hyphen, and a quick test with dropping the hyphen on my own
system results in errors on 'apt-get update'.

I suspect that the omitted hyphen means his system is not actually
seeing non-free at all. I would suggest adding the hyphen and trying again.

​I added the non-free epiphet to the sources.list file and then did apt-get update and aptitude safe-upgrade etc.

That did not install the firmware package.

I had to do aptitude install linux-firmware-nonfree to get it installed. It is not automatic.

This fixed everything.

Thanks MF

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