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ron_h wrote: ⤴

Thu Nov 29, 2018 4:47 am

I didn't remove them first as I wanted to keep the associated settings and bookmarks etc.

These are stored in your home folder, they shouldn't be removed when you remove the package.

It's a quirk in aptdaemon (which mintsources tool uses for removing/downgrading foreign packages). It won't remove packages that are marked as Essential: yes to avoid removing crucial system packages. But it also doesn't want to remove less important packages that only have Priority: required set. T...

Should be possible with some manual work: viewtopic.php?f=247&t=279002#p1535388

The default LMDE installer doesn't support that (except for doing it via the command line in the expert partitioning mode).
Try Calamares installer from the menu - maybe it supports that?

Thunderbird surely comes from upstream (Debian Stretch repos in this case). $ LC_ALL=C apt policy thunderbird thunderbird: Installed: 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 Candidate: 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 Version table: *** 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 500 500 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg...

I think they could've been removed if you've followed the "D8. Delete foreign packages" section of the upgrade tutorial.

Both packages are available in Debian repos, so they should install fine. Just in case, check your repositories with inxi -r.

It might be better to add jessie-backports repo and install the package from there.

Well... there's kind of hackish way to upgrade LMDE 2 MATE to LMDE 3 Cinnamon+MATE... https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3635#comment-145312 https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3635#comment-145378 Actually, no need to install Cinnamon before the upgrade... dealing with the mint-info + mint-user-guide combo is ...

I recall that in older versions you needed to update the file index first... sudo apt-file update Also if you need to search only through the installed packages, Mint's apt script can do it too: $ apt contains libQtNetwork.so.4 libqt4-network:amd64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtNetwork.so.4 libqt4...

Looks like it's still available.

Yes, it is the display manager. Ubuntu has a patch for lightdm to make it read these profile files. As I understand it, they did it because it was so in gdm, the display manager Ubuntu used before lightdm. See the discussion here . Debian doesn't have such patch. Here it's stated that the display ma...

Looks like something is missing in Debian for the guest session to work, so it's disabled in lightdm-settings tool.

Oh, looks like it's a known problem with nvidia and stretch-backports:

https://bugs.debian.org/903770
https://bugs.debian.org/906903

Do you have any additional repositories enabled? Because libglvnd0 and libglx0 aren't in LMDE 3 or Debian Stretch repos.

Ah, I missed the live part. Ok, then adding another virtual CD/DVD device could be a solution. It's possible to do in the VM settings.

Just to make sure, you can check which driver is used by running inxi -G in the terminal.
If it's indeed nouveau, you can try the proprietary drivers instead and see if they make the situation better.

Having the guest additions CD image inserted isn't enough - you need to install the actual guest additions from it.

You can run it from the terminal:
The messages that it will show might give some hints about what's happening.

Maybe try Calamares installer? It's available in the menu.