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Thank you very much ThunderRd, you are in a class all by yourself. A very high class! "1 to 3 is fine by me." I swear I'll remember that.

Thank you a million, ThunderRd! I had it backasswards, but of course. The embarrassment, it burns. Dunno which Topic this is more pertinent to be in, I beg your collective pardons!

Sorry to be a nudge, but it'd be great if the "security level" of updates in the Synaptic Tray could be clarified. A thousand thank you's!

Thank you Daniel~ and ThunderRd! So all of the "shouting" about "Gtk Critical" is really a bunch of hooey? Thank you for telling me! Maybe I have the "security level" thing upside down? Is "5" the most secure and "1" the least? It would be "normal" for me to get it backwards. Sigh.

Thank you Daniel~! Everything was copacetic but I refused updates with "security ratings" below 3. Now I have 4 recommended updates instead of 23. The only squawk in "Information - Update Manager" reads: " (synaptic:3029):Gtk-CRITICAL **:gtk_widget_hide:assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget') failed...

Thank you Daniel~, I'll get to it tomorrow, it's too late for good concentration. Thank you again!

Amazing that I can remember the "what color is that house?" line concerning the fair witness from "Stranger in a Strange Land." Read it 38 years ago. Maybe Circumin really aids memory? Back to Mint 17.3. My Synaptic Tray icon now lists 22 recommended updates available. Assuming that all of...

Thinking about it, I'm no doubt spoiled my Linux Mint 17.3. But is that a bad thing? Probably, sigh. Glad that we grok what "sho, you right" means, Daniel~. But...but what about "grok?" No doubt if you're a child of the sixties! Am I dating myself? Surely not! Wasn't there some dialogue in the...

It is SO nice not to see that attention grabbing red "x" on top of the the Synaptic Tray Icon. Thank you ThundrRd! Dan~, as the hidden voice on the Arsenio Hall Show used to say once in a while, "sho you right!"

I will do my very best to stay out of Terminal unless there's a very good reason to open that little ominous black window. And then I'll proceed EXTREMELY carefully. Where would I be without ThunderRd's stellar assistance? It'd be nearly a miracle if I could post here at all! FUD used to nearly...

I sincerely hope that that is true, Daniel~!

Yes, long lists of things happening take place in Terminal if you ask it to politely. I have good (and expensive of course) bandwidth so Terminal rips through lots of work. You're right, Daniel~! Unlike a corporation from hell whose updates used an extremely small swath of my bandwidth and...

You have done a mountain, make that two mountains of work to help this unworthy one. Thank you, thank you, thank you very, very much Sir ThunderRd! I very obviously couldn't have fixed what was to me a quagmire of Linux Mint 17.3 troubles without your infinite patience and beyond regular human...

Thanks ThunderRd! Hmm, your first command line entry seemed to do the trick. Yay! The response lines said: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: google-chrome-stable 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to...

"sudo apt-get update" downloaded the longest list yet. I think that google put some updates in the wrong place on their site, or doesn't care about Linux users, or maybe it's the 32-bit/64-bit thing? 'sudo apt-get install --reinstall google-chrome" returned: Reading package lists... Done...

Thank you so much for your assistance, ThunderRd! Daniel~ gave me a great example to follow to cut and paste command lines that you post directly to the Terminal. I've been using it successfully for quite a while. Thank you again, Daniel~!

Thank you ThunderRd! Your command from your post #36 gets the following reply: "-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Feb 29 20:17 getdeb.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 189 Apr 3 19:36 google-chrome.list -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420 Mar 18 19:12 official-package-repositories.list" The "rw-r--r 1 root root"...

Thank you ThunderRd! The first command in your post #32 returns: rm: cannot remove '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list-BACKUP' : No such file or directory I think the absence of the BACKUP chrome file was noticed in an earlier post? My post #30?

LOL, Daniel~! You make a very good point!

Thank you ThunderRd! The "information" choice from the "shield's" right click menu is now new and improved. The troublesome "Error in checkAPT.py, could not refresh list of updates" is still there. HOWEVER, that's no longer the last line in the "information" window. It's followed by: "Starting...