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Just see for youself:


i. e. a package can't be removed because that would lead to the removal of "helper packages". That's too stupid ;)

I don't know if this is the right place to report bugs on mint.

Please extend lsb_release to include a reference on the Ubuntu-Version the release is built:

Currently, it just shows:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description:    Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Release:    17
Codename:   qiana

but I would like to see:

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: LinuxMint
Description:    Linux Mint 17 Qiana
Release:    17
Codename:   qiana

Upstream Reference: Ubuntu 14.04
Upstream Name: Trusty Tahr

...in control file / deps - i'm i somehow missing the obvious here,
is it used anywhere and i didn't noticed such?

MintInstall doesn't show icon preview anymore. When you run this program from the terminal, you can see:

mint-common (WARN): Could not load AppStream info for remote '<Flatpak.Remote object at 0x7f57209619c0 (FlatpakRemote at 0x555eeb891950)>': as-store-error-quark: Failed to parse XML: Error on line 1960 char 29: <p> already set '
Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for travelers,
tourists, hikers, and cyclists.
It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by
' and tried to replace with ' (' (0)

MintCommon can't parse Flatpak remote info. This is a bug in the last stable LM release and the new unstable release.

All the Mint tools are python based and therefore architecture independend.

Architecture independend files should normally go to /usr/share. Though for scripts this is not necessary (it's at least not an error on a Debian system), images however should never go to /usr/lib according to the FHS:
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/image-file-in-usr-lib.html

I think a long-term goal should be to move all the stuff from /usr/lib to /usr/share.

NetworkManager 1.16 got native support for WireGuard VPN tunnels.
There is no menu item for adding a Wireguard tunnel in xfce.
How do i fix it?

OS: Linuxmint 20.2 uma
Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.4.0-91-generic
nmcli: 1.22.10
xfce4-session: 4.16.0

network-manager-gnome/uma,now 1.8.24-linuxmint4 amd64 [installed]
network-manager-openconnect-gnome/focal,now 1.2.6-1 amd64 [installed]
network-manager-pptp-gnome/focal,now 1.2.8-2 amd64 [installed]

Please ensure that during bootup all backlights are set to at least say 10%. I just had an incredibly frustrating issue trying to diagnose why the video card would not work only to realize later that the backlight was off by default in fresh installs.

The "Additional software has to be installed" dialog that is using aptdaemon (at least I think it does) seems to be untranslated on Linux Mint although it is fully translated in my (Czech) language and MintInstall is fully translated as well. See the following screenshot:

This happens on a fully updated Linux Mint MATE 20.1 with the following versions of mintinstall/aptdaemon packages installed:

ii  mintinstall      8.0.5                         all          Software Manager
ii  aptdaemon        1.1.1+bzr982-0ubuntu32.3      all          transaction based package management service

After updating to Python 3.11 on Debian testing this error comes up when starting Mintsources :

**_```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSources/mintSources.py", line 29, in
import mintcommon.aptdaemon
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/mintcommon/aptdaemon.py", line 9, in
import aptdaemon.client
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/client.py", line 54, in
class AptTransaction(GObject.Object):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/client.py", line 656, in AptTransaction
@convert_dbus_exception
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/aptdaemon/errors.py", line 178, in convert_dbus_exception
argnames, varargs, kwargs, defaults = inspect.getargspec(func)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'inspect' has no attribute 'getargspec'. Did you mean: 'getargs'?

On a Linux Mint Mate Tricia I get the following issue:

• I installed a texstudio
  dpkg -l "texstudio"
  ii texstudio 2.12.22-0202001151910ubuntu18.04.1
• texmaker
  ii texmaker 5.0.2-1build2
  on both I get a
  texmaker: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Font_Format
  texstudio: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5: undefined symbol: FT_Get_Font_Format

google tells me, that it is a freetype problem. So I checked freetype:
dpkg -l "freetype"
un gir1.2-freetype2-2.0
un libfont-freetype-perl
ii libfreetype6:amd64 2.8.1-2ubuntu2 amd64
ii libfreetype6-dev:amd64 2.8.1-2ubuntu2

libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 is part of the package libqt5gui5:
dpkg -l "libqt5gui5"
ii libqt5gui5:amd64 5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.5

Now the funny part: I have an identical machine here (lshw Produkt: 81HN (LENOVO_MT_81HN_BU_idea_FM_V130-15IKB)), same system but different update status:
the one with the error did the last update:
Start-Date: 2020-03-10 11:28:54
Commandline: aptdaemon role='role-install-packages' sender=':1.328'
Install: libpoppler-qt5-1:amd64 (0.62.0-2ubuntu2.10, automatic), libqt5xml5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.5, automatic), texstudio:amd64 (2.12.22-0202001151910ubuntu18.04.1), libqt5printsupport5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.5, automatic), libqt5concurrent5:amd64 (5.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu2.5, automatic), libqt5script5:amd64 (5.
9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1, automatic)
End-Date: 2020-03-10 11:28:59

and the one, on which the same texmaker and texstudio version work updates last time:
Start-Date: 2020-03-05 17:25:42
Commandline: /usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent-window-id 90177556 -o Synaptic::closeZvt=true --set-selections-file /tmp/tmp47ajxcq5
Requested-By: prakti2 (1000)
Install: ...
End-Date: 2020-03-05 17:32:16

The texmake, texstudio, libqt5gui5, freetype packages are identical.
It seems, in between there must be a change in some changes in a different package. Attached you can find the packagelist of the both pcs: packagelist1 is where it does not work, packagelist2 is, where it works.

How my Disks looks
https://i.imgur.com/9Stnshr.png
Running Mint 19 xfce
I have customized some xfce settings, and disabled Compositing.
Unclear if this is the right place to post.

$ inxi -Fxzd
System:    Host: minty-boost Kernel: 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
           bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 (Gtk 2.24.31) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Machine:   Device: laptop System: Gateway product: P-6301 v: 1234567 serial: N/A
           Mobo: Gateway model: P-6301 v: 1234567 serial: N/A
           BIOS: Phoenix v: R01-A0Z (94.25.00) date: 09/03/2007
CPU:       Dual core Intel Pentium Dual T2310 (-MCP-) 
           arch: Conroe rev.13 cache: 1024 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips: 5852
           clock speeds: max: 1467 MHz 1: 1462 MHz 2: 1463 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary)
           bus-ID: 00:02.0
           Display Server: x11 (X.Org 1.19.6 )
           drivers: modesetting (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: [email protected]
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 965GM
           version: 2.1 Mesa 18.0.5 Direct Render: Yes
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (46.2% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: FUJITSU_MHW2160B size: 160.0GB
           Optical-1: /dev/sr0 model: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7563A
           rev: WX05 dev-links: cdrom,cdrw,dvd,dvdrw
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes
           audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: running
           Optical-2: /dev/sr1 model: N/A rev: N/A dev-links: N/A
           Features: speed: 24x multisession: yes
           audio: yes dvd: yes rw: cd-r,cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-ram state: N/A
Partition: ID-1: / size: 20G used: 16G (86%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda6
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Info:      Processes: 163 Uptime: 2:44 Memory: 842.5/1984.7MB
           Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 7.3.0
           Client: Shell (bash 4.4.191) inxi: 2.3.56

For example a libreoffice odt, powerpoint, spreadsheet so we don't have an empty "Create New Document" list

Another option would be to remove the template list if there are no templates present