From: none@not.here   
      
   Gordon wrote:   
   > On 2025-08-27, pinnerite  wrote:   
   >> For the last 4 months I have relied on a 16 year old machine for   
   >> communication.   
   >>   
   >> Having got my main machine to work, the old one collapsed or rather the   
   >> hard drive did. I decided to restore it using another drive.   
   >>   
   >> Not so easy.   
   >>   
   >> I had trouble getting the machine to boot on a Mint 22.1 installation   
   >> flash drive, then another, then a DVD and finally one of my oldest   
   >> flash drives.   
   >>   
   >> But when I tried to update it in order to indstall Synaptic, I kept   
   >> running into errors.   
   >>   
   >> I tried everythging I could find on the WWW but so far nothing has worked.   
   >>   
   >> The last attempt ended with this:   
   >>   
   >> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:   
   >>   files list file for package 'gnome-accessibility-themes' is missing final   
   newline   
   >>   
   >> $ find . -name gnome-accessibility-themes   
   >> just returns to the prompt, so it is not a file.   
   >>   
   > As your were trying to boot off old hardware I would enter the possibility   
   > that it was the USB socket which was not working.   
      
   he tried to install from a DVD also.  22.1 is for newer hardware, so I   
   would try an earlier LM version.   
      
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