Re: More info - was [Re: Synaptic fails to fix broken packages]

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2018-10-04 18:27, Glenn English wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:06 PM Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > Just did a fresh install to another partition of the machine on which 
> > I
> > observed the current problem.
> > Installation was from DVD 1 of Debian 9.1.0
> >
> > Again LibreOffice Writer would not launch.
> > Attempted complete removal. This time the LibreOffice meta-package was
> > identified as broke.
> > [I did _something_ ???]
>
> If I may suggest, skip Stretch and install Buster. I had problems
> (don't remember what they were) with Stretch too, and everything's
> working fine on Buster.
>
> I've never used anything but Stable, but this time it seemed to be
> bent. The updates are massive on Testing, but it works.
>
> YMMV...

I agree Buster / apt is working well.
Spent ages messing with different distributions in the past.
Really these days there seems to be no need.

mick





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