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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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I see you're using a lower kernel number than I am. I'll drop to a 3.x kernel and see if I can get access to the dpkg...5.8 version, as it is right now, I can't get it.

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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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this error seems to be occurring if you are still using LM17.3 & possibly also if you are using Cinnamon, as well.
- maybe just wait until your local repository has updated, again.
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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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Hi, Pierre.

The default main repos (packages.linuxmint.com, archive.ubuntu.com) gave me the updated dpkg on Mint 17.1 Cinnamon and on Mint 17.2 xfce without me having to do anything special.

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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

Post by BG405 »

I did an update earlier and the mint-artwork-common package ws only listed in Update Manager after I'd updated dpkg (along with the other updates listed then). I don't know why the mint-artwork-common update was listed, in your case, prior to this?
Pierre wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:49 pm this error seems to be occurring if you are still using LM17.3 & possibly also if you are using Cinnamon, as well.
- maybe just wait until your local repository has updated, again.
My reply was posted from the LM17.3 Cinnamon 64-bit system. No update for the artwork package was visible in UM prior to the dpkg update being applied.
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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

Post by scubajeff »

I had the same error attempting to install mint-artwork-common_1.8.7.2_all.deb, on Mint 17.2 I solved it by updating dpkg.

I do not install Level 3 updates because they are described in the Update Manager GUI as "Safe updates. Not tested, but believed to be safe." I won't install anything that has not been tested. I was a UNIX and Linux Sys Admin for 20 years, and I never update anything on any system, unless it has been carefully tested. My motto at work was, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" That served me well for decades. Hence, my Mint version is way below the current 18.3 release. That also explains why my dpkg version was lower than required for mint-artwork-common.

I started with this version of dpkg: 1.17.5ubuntu5.5

People have stated that one needs 1.17.5 for the mint-artwork-common package to install. As you an see, I had 1.17.5, but the key is the "ubuntu5.5" part of the version name. It needs to be "ubuntu5.8".

The fix.

Refresh you list of available packages:

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apt-get update
------------------------------------------------------
Research the repo versions, and your installed version:
apt-cache policy dpkg -- shows your installed version, and any candidate package version available.

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apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.5
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Version table:
     1.17.5ubuntu5.8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.17.5ubuntu5.5 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.17.5ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
---------------------------------------------------------

Another verification that a newer package is available:

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apt-cache show dpkg
Package: dpkg
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Essential: yes
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Update the dpkg package:

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apt-get install --only-upgrade dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  scummvm scummvm-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  dpkg
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 506 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,958 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main dpkg amd64 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 [1,958 kB]
Fetched 1,958 kB in 1s (995 kB/s) 
(Reading database ... 186331 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dpkg_1.17.5ubuntu5.8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking dpkg (1.17.5ubuntu5.8) over (1.17.5ubuntu5.5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up dpkg (1.17.5ubuntu5.8) ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Verify the newly installed dpkg version:

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apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Version table:
 *** 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.17.5ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Another way to verify the new package:

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 dpkg --status dpkg
Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 6240
Origin: debian
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
Replaces: manpages-it (<< 2.80-4)
Pre-Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), tar (>= 1.23)
Suggests: apt
Breaks: apt (<< 0.7.7), aptitude (<< 0.4.7-1), dpkg-dev (<< 1.15.8), libdpkg-perl (<< 1.15.8)
Conffiles:
 /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg f4413ffb515f8f753624ae3bb365b81b
 /etc/cron.daily/dpkg b6b8dc21210ea50db7cc4636f521758f
 /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg 782ea5ae536f67ff51dc8c3e2eeb4cf9
 /etc/alternatives/README 69c4ba7f08363e998e0f2e244a04f881
Description: Debian package management system
 This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the
 installation and removal of Debian software packages.
 .
 For Debian package development tools, install dpkg-dev.
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg
Original-Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Next, I updated mint-artwork-common, using the Update Manager GUI, and it installed error free. You can now verify that update:

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apt-cache policy mint-artwork-common
mint-artwork-common:
  Installed: 1.8.7.2
  Candidate: 1.8.7.2
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.7.2 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ rafaela/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Best Regards,
Jeff
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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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Nope - - Jeff - - none of that works"
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mint-artwork-common_1.8.7.2_all.deb: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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BG405 wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 5:55 pm My reply was posted from the LM17.3 Cinnamon 64-bit system. No update for the artwork package was visible in UM prior to the dpkg update being applied.
I cannot confirm. Yesterday I started 2 LM 17.3 Cinnamon test systems, which I did not used in the last half year; so they did not get any updates in those 6 months. When I opened the update manager I got as well the update for mint-artwork-common and for dpkg. I did apply all open updates (those 2 and all the many others) and in both systems this worked without an issue.

This means: Both updates are visible at the same time (if both are still open) and both can get updated with the same step.
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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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@jeff

That don't work for me, no 5.8 available:

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sudo apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
  Version table:
 *** 1.17.5ubuntu5.7 0
        500 http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/ubuntu.com/packages/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.17.5ubuntu5 0
        500 http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/mirror/ubuntu.com/packages/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
Another verification that a newer package is NOT available:

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sudo apt-cache show dpkg
Package: dpkg
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Essential: yes
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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Hi, red03golf.

Try switching the Ubuntu repo servers to plain vanilla archive.ubuntu.com instead. They gave me dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 almost a week ago or so.

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[SOLVED] Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

Post by red03golf »

karlchen wrote: Fri Mar 23, 2018 11:26 am Hi, red03golf.

Try switching the Ubuntu repo servers to plain vanilla archive.ubuntu.com instead. They gave me dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 almost a week ago or so.

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Then, update the cache

Here's the output, now:

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sudo apt-cache policy dpkg
[sudo] password for user: 
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Version table:
     1.17.5ubuntu5.8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.17.5ubuntu5.7 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.17.5ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
Update & upgrade:

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sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
The following packages will be upgraded: 
  dpkg initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin iproute iproute2 isc-dhcp-client 
  isc-dhcp-common libapparmor1 libdpkg-perl lshw mint-artwork-common 
  python3-update-manager resolvconf update-manager-core 
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  libatm1
  ...
  sudo aptitude install libatm1
  ...
Woo Hoo!!

Consider this problem SOLVED.
  • Thank you, Karl, for the solution.
  • Thank you, everyone else, for your input and suggestions.
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Re: [SOLVED] mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

Post by Baldlygo »

Thanks for the info folks - I'd lived with the error a few days. Changed mirrors and now updated successfully.
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Re: [SOLVED] mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

Post by GGubby »

I have tried suggestions but continue to get error message for mint-srtwork-common upgrade!
How do I check if my dpkg is up to date?
Any other suggestions from people who have solved this problem?
Or...should I just not worry about the artwork upgrade?
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Re: [SOLVED] mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

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GGubby wrote: Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:18 am How do I check if my dpkg is up to date?
Open synaptic, enter "dpkg" and check the version number.
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Re: [SOLVED] mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

Post by Baldlygo »

"apt show dpkg" - shows mine is Version: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8

dpkg only updated after changing sources - then mint-artwork-common updated no problem
Last edited by Baldlygo on Sat Mar 24, 2018 6:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: [SOLVED] mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

Post by GGubby »

'Thank you!' - I'm a real new comer to this but have found 3 dpkg files that had upgrades available; downloaded and re-run artwork upgrade successfully..... :)
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Re: [SOLVED] mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

Post by Skara Brae »

Running 17.3 "Rosa" MATE here (ever since Ubuntu went Unity <barf>), and I had the same "error" message only 10 minutes ago or so. Following the explanation of scubajeff on updating dpkg, I was able to successfully download and install the "mint-artwork-common" package.

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kriske@rosa ~ $ inxi -Sz
System:    Host: rosa Kernel: 4.4.0-109-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: MATE 1.12.0
           Distro: Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa

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kriske@rosa ~ $ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
Before, and after the dpkg upgrade:

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kriske@rosa ~ $ apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
After which the mint-artwork-common package could be downloaded.

@scubajeff, thank you very for your explanation - it has, in my case, been extremely helpful.
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Re: [SOLVED] mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS [SOLVED]

Post by Pierre »

what finally worked for me:
- Try switching the Ubuntu repo servers to plain vanilla archive.ubuntu.com instead.
as per what karlchen has said.
- sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade dpkg
verify that it is the latest version.
- sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade mint-artwork-common

Note: that I've had to use sudo or it wouldn't work. . .
Finally - - "your system is up-to-date" AND that Big Tick :D
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FenderGuy wrote: Wed Mar 21, 2018 11:05 am In Linux Mint 17.3, I typically perform all updates for Levels 1 and 2; however, to resolve THIS issue, I installed all the Level 3 updates that were noted as "safe for download" (i.e., in Update Manager, TYPE = down arrow).

Problem solved!
All this mambo j'hambo with links and mockery and in the end - turning on Level 3 is what solved it.

Thanks Fender - Nice work, brother!
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Installing the Level 3 updates fixed the problem for me as well, that is all that I had to do.
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Re: mint-artwork-common > dpkg error - attn: DEVS

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scubajeff wrote: Thu Mar 22, 2018 10:06 pm I had the same error attempting to install mint-artwork-common_1.8.7.2_all.deb, on Mint 17.2 I solved it by updating dpkg.

I do not install Level 3 updates because they are described in the Update Manager GUI as "Safe updates. Not tested, but believed to be safe." I won't install anything that has not been tested. I was a UNIX and Linux Sys Admin for 20 years, and I never update anything on any system, unless it has been carefully tested. My motto at work was, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" That served me well for decades. Hence, my Mint version is way below the current 18.3 release. That also explains why my dpkg version was lower than required for mint-artwork-common.

I started with this version of dpkg: 1.17.5ubuntu5.5

People have stated that one needs 1.17.5 for the mint-artwork-common package to install. As you an see, I had 1.17.5, but the key is the "ubuntu5.5" part of the version name. It needs to be "ubuntu5.8".

The fix.

Refresh you list of available packages:

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apt-get update
------------------------------------------------------
Research the repo versions, and your installed version:
apt-cache policy dpkg -- shows your installed version, and any candidate package version available.

Code: Select all

apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.5
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Version table:
     1.17.5ubuntu5.8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
     1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.17.5ubuntu5.5 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.17.5ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
---------------------------------------------------------

Another verification that a newer package is available:

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apt-cache show dpkg
Package: dpkg
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Essential: yes
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Update the dpkg package:

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apt-get install --only-upgrade dpkg
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  scummvm scummvm-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  dpkg
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 506 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,958 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,024 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main dpkg amd64 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 [1,958 kB]
Fetched 1,958 kB in 1s (995 kB/s) 
(Reading database ... 186331 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dpkg_1.17.5ubuntu5.8_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking dpkg (1.17.5ubuntu5.8) over (1.17.5ubuntu5.5) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up dpkg (1.17.5ubuntu5.8) ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Verify the newly installed dpkg version:

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apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Candidate: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
  Version table:
 *** 1.17.5ubuntu5.8 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.17.5ubuntu5.6 0
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
     1.17.5ubuntu5 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Another way to verify the new package:

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 dpkg --status dpkg
Package: dpkg
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 6240
Origin: debian
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.17.5ubuntu5.8
Replaces: manpages-it (<< 2.80-4)
Pre-Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libselinux1 (>= 2.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), tar (>= 1.23)
Suggests: apt
Breaks: apt (<< 0.7.7), aptitude (<< 0.4.7-1), dpkg-dev (<< 1.15.8), libdpkg-perl (<< 1.15.8)
Conffiles:
 /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg f4413ffb515f8f753624ae3bb365b81b
 /etc/cron.daily/dpkg b6b8dc21210ea50db7cc4636f521758f
 /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg 782ea5ae536f67ff51dc8c3e2eeb4cf9
 /etc/alternatives/README 69c4ba7f08363e998e0f2e244a04f881
Description: Debian package management system
 This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the
 installation and removal of Debian software packages.
 .
 For Debian package development tools, install dpkg-dev.
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg
Original-Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Next, I updated mint-artwork-common, using the Update Manager GUI, and it installed error free. You can now verify that update:

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apt-cache policy mint-artwork-common
mint-artwork-common:
  Installed: 1.8.7.2
  Candidate: 1.8.7.2
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.7.2 0
        700 http://packages.linuxmint.com/ rafaela/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
You may wonder why a professional Linux Sys Admin would ever use a GUI, when the GUI is never configured to run at boot time on corporate servers, requiring that 100% of my work was done via the command line, for decades. My response; the GUI is easy, fast, usually a no-brainer, almost always works without error, and it's my personal computer, not a corporate server, and the GUI can minimize the potential for serious damage to your system. It saves me the time and pain of researching a series of complicated command lines. If a GUI tool helps reduce the learning curve for Linux, or simply automates complicated command line procedures, then it's ok. Many professional Linux Sys Admins will strongly disagree with that idea, and perhaps, even scoff at you for using a GUI.

Best Regards,
Jeff
This worked for me, thanks a buch, but THAT'S A SHAME we have to look at forums to get a fixe of this, after mounth the problem was still alive on my computer, and unable to update. Good work devs, really.
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