Mintinstall

[kx3210]

Reinstall LMDE after it broke and it's been horrendous to install. Never had problems previously. I think the last problem is

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The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 mintinstall : PreDepends: ca-certificates (>= 20210101) but 20200601~deb10u2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Can't find a solution for this anybody got any thoughts.

[all41]

Try repairing broken packages and dependencies
In a terminal:

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sudo dpkg --configure -a

then refresh your package cache:

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apt update

and install the latest updates

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apt upgrade

finally run:

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mintinstall

Sometimes the flatpak cache takes a while to refresh.
If any errors are reported post them back here.

[karlchen]

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mintinstall : PreDepends: ca-certificates (>= 20210101) but 20200601~deb10u2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The problem is that Debian 10 buster, on which LMDE4 is based, still brings along the outdated certificate package ca-certificates 20200601, instead of 20210101.

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$ inxi -Sx3
System:    Host: unimatrix3 Kernel: 4.19.0-18-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 tk: Gtk 3.24.5
           info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.14.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: MX-19.4_x64 patito feo February 15  2020
           base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

$ dpkg --list ca-certificates
||/ Name            Version          Architektur  Beschreibung
+++-===============-================-============-=================================
ii  ca-certificates 20200601~deb10u2 all          Common CA certificates

I am pretty optimistic that it will be possible to download and install the more recent ca-certificates package from Debian 11 Bullseye, without causing any negative side effects. (Have not tried yet, though)
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... rtificates

[kx3210]

Didn't work, exactly the same problem. Thinking of giving up on LMDE, have used it since it came out but I've had multiple problems recently so might give up and move distro

[karlchen]

Hello, kx3210.

What precisely did not work?
Downloading the ca-certificates package for Bullseye?
Or installing it with the help of either gdebi-gtk or dpkg?
Or did the installer still complain that ca-certificates 20210101 or higher were not present?
What does dpkg --list ca-certificates display?

Karl

[kx3210]

Hi - finally gave up was having other problems with zoneminder. I installed mint 20.2 which installed with no errors at all. so I'm going to give it a try and see if it is more reliable then LMDE

[Aztaroth]

Reinstall LMDE after it broke and it's been horrendous to install. Never had problems previously. I think the last problem is

As I previously said in another topic :

Did you read and follow this (now mandatory) advice before updating ?
PSA: Fix Update Manager error after installing LMDE 4
viewtopic.php?f=245&t=355148

I installed mint 20.2 which installed with no errors at all. so I'm going to give it a try and see if it is more reliable then LMDE

From all distros I tried, LMDE4 was the most reliable. But if you're happy with LM 20.2, that's not a bad choice at all

[jwiz]

Had the same problem yesterday. the old ca-certificates is prohibiiting the upgrade to mintinstall-8.0.9 due to broken dependencies.
Still running mintinstall-8.0.8.
When will this packaging error be addressed?

[jwiz]

It just has.
Thanks, Mint team.

@OP: please mark as solved.