Renewing Updater Security Updates?

Novatian · 03-09-2023, 04:00 AM

I am using Mint. And I think a security update was interrupted and I think I opted erringly for letting the updater ignore this from then on. I would like to ask if there is a way to try again to install security updates?

sundialsvcs · 03-09-2023, 09:40 AM

This vague response does not give the rest of us enough information to act upon, I think. Exactly what happened? And where, exactly, do you think that it went wrong? Details, details, details ... Acknowledging that you are a "senior member."

Novatian · 03-21-2023, 10:35 PM

Okay, about two and a half years ago I installed Mint 20.3 I think. And recently, a few months back on a laptop I installed Mint 21 and hardened it, during one of it's updates, I lost connection to the net. This happened while security updates were being fetched. It gave me the choice to leave them go and carry on without them. But I chose to "try again". Previously on my old computer 20.3, I think the same thing happened but I did not try again. I wanted to ask how I can make sure my PC has all it's security updates. There is the danger of hackers and thefts.

I use Apparmor and Firejail. Built in is the firewall. Mint has a simple firewall.

Turbocapitalist · 03-21-2023, 10:55 PM

What is the specific error message which you are seeing?

In general, you just run the update again:

Code:

apt update

apt-get upgrade
# or
apt-get upgrade --fix-missing
# or 
apt-get upgrade --fix-broken

See "man apt-get"

PS. I presume this is for a laptop? Firewalls don't do what it seems you think they do. However, custom AppArmor profiles for the problematic, net-facing programs such as your various browsers are very useful.