Update issue

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biosprob
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Tried to do an update of my system and received this error. No idea what it means

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.13.0-77-lowlatency_3.13.0-77.121+7.0trisquel2_amd64.deb: subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2

Any help would be much appreciated.

lembas
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Do you have space in root?df -h

SuperTramp83

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Also **sudo synaptic** and then remove all the packages in "status" - "residual config".
Take a look at the logs in /var/logs if you find any huge files there taking your preciousss space and also remove all the old kernels.

lembas
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Best to use gksudo with graphical apps, categorically. So

gksudo synaptic

Magic Banana

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The default launcher actually calls 'synaptic-pkexec'.

SuperTramp83

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That's correct Magique B.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/78352/when-to-use-pkexec-vs-gksu-gksudo

Just wanted to confirm that on all distros I used (did a lot of hopping a year or something more ago), I opened always **all* the graphical applications with plain sudo without any issue whatsoever. In fact I still do that and see no reason to change the habit.

lembas
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You're welcome to. But it might not be a great idea to tell newcomers to do alike. They might not like it when their computer becomes unusable. And they probably would blame Trisquel or even GNU/Linux for it.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Graphical_sudo