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I think I know what you've got: old Mint themes from LMDE 1 repo. That release has just "debian" name for the repo. You can change that to "cindy" to get access to LMDE 3 repo.

This looks like Xfce panel settings...

The Command applet is pre-configured to show the output of date +%T command, that's why you see a "clock".

Well, this is a weird setup. You have repos and base-files package from 18.1, mint-info-cinnamon package from LMDE 3, and Cinnamon 4.0 from either 19.1 or LMDE 3.

What would these commands say?

That screenshot shows it's Mint 18.1 "Serena", based on Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus"...

There's no system-config-printer-gnome package in Debian repos, it's only in Ubuntu. Did you add some Ubuntu repos to your LMDE system...?

held packages

There are probably none of them, it's just apt not being able to resolve the dependencies and showing misleading error message...

By any chance, did you try to install the package built for Ubuntu 18.04 (instead of the one built for Debian 9 "Stretch")?

Try this:

I suspect the driver is just too old for this newer kernel, but maybe I am wrong.

I suspect it too.
If you installed a newer kernel from stretch-backports repo, it's better to install an updated driver package from there as well.

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...