Big Bad Bob  wrote:
>
> another possibility might be to use 'dist-upgrade' as well as 'upgrade'
> with the apt-get commands to upgrade your system.  Sometimes that will
> do things to fix problems *like* that.
>
>
Alas, not in this case. Every upgrade attempt cycled through
update, upgrade and dist-upgrade in the hope some missing change
would get made. No such luck.

Part of the trouble is my own inexperience with Linux. I'm
well acquainted with FreeBSD and was once a user of Apple's A/UX,
but Raspbian is a different animal, and the zookeepers are different.

Is there a central repository for Raspbian documentation, something
like the FreeBSD handbook? A basic guide to how things are done might
have helped in a case like this.

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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