fredx181 wrote:Hey Belham,
Sorry, I can't reproduce your issue, tried by first installing chromium 69, reboot with save and then install v70, no problem for me.
Did a web search for: dpkg "unable to make backup link of" , not much info (and I can't test), maybe you can try ?
Fred
Hi Fred,
Thanks for trying. This one had and has me stumped.
Since I run everything as frugal with Porteus boot, and that I always keep back ups from when the build was pristine, I tried the following:
So, brand new frugal folder, set the menu.lst entry with the normal porteus entries I've always used, and started her up.
Opened Synaptic, all set all updates, and purposely forbid Chromium to update. And everything worked like a charm. The Stretch64 build brought everything up to date.
Then, I installed Chromium 69 (like you), which went well and it runs like crazy, real good.
Then opened Synaptic, hit "refresh", then "mark all upgrades", and the only upgrade was to Chromium 70.
And sure enough, the exact same dpkg:error message showed up.
Me thinks it is something in the debian repo and/or how they packaged Chromium 70. I can't figure out what else it would be.
Anyhow, just ditched Chromium, and installed the latest Google Chrome, and, weirdly, all is good now (or at least I think, haha
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
). I just added Google's PPA and gpg key, so the updates will happen automatically now from Synaptic.
Hope you are doing well, Fred, and in good health. They're saying we're (Benelux) are gonna get creamed this winter in terms of possible record cold temperatures along lack of precipitation.
Dang, after this very dry (low rain), high temp past summer, which nearly killed my garden and all my neighbors gardens, now we are supposed to get hit with a dry, brutally cold winter???
This is not gonna be fun! Who knew water
(or lack of it, for gardens and drinking) would become such a huge issue to two countries like ours that are right beside the oceans! Incredible. I bet Denmark and Lux is gonna get hit too, maybe most of northern Germany.....hope so, misery always needs company (lol).
Be safe and good, and have a Happy Holidays (
if I forget to come on here and say so ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
)