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Thank you very, very much ThunderRd! Thank you very much Daniel~! I think I followed all of the instructions in Option #2 correctly. After the last "apt-get" command a whole bunch of stuff was updated. But the last line says: N: Ignoring file 'google-chrome.list-BACKUP' in directory...

I actually thought that a "sudo" might be missing. Unfortunately I don't know EXACTLY where "sudo" belongs, so I still don't know what I should about it. Mea culpa. Thank you ThunderRd, I think I'll wait till tomorrow to address this, the nervousity factor is high right now. Thank you very much!

Thanks ThunderRd! Got this response after cutting and pasting your first command, plus hitting "Enter" in Option #2: cp: cannot create regular file '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list-BACKUP' : Permission denied . As usual, I don't know why this happened. Apologies!

Thank you for your invaluable help, ThunderRd! I have both Chrome and Firefox. I use Chrome only for Netflix --and for times when being unable to update Flash in Firefox makes it impossible to use the Firefox browser. Updating Flash (which should be freakin' extinct because it's a security...

I'm using Firefox. "gedit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list copied and pasted plus "Entered" in Terminal earned a very unusual reply: The box doesn't look like normal Terminal stuff. It's titled: "google-chrome.list [Read-Only] (etc/apt/sources.list.d) - gedit (at the very top of...

Ugh. sudo apt-get clean and "Enter." Then it asks for my password. Entered my password, hit "Enter" then re-entered sudo apt-get clean, hit "Enter." Machine doesn't respond to "sudo apt-get clean," The prompt printed my password en-claire, then did it again plus: "command not found." Entered...

Thank you ThunderRd! Aw carap, I didn't precisely follow your instructions again. Sorry! sudo apt-get update grabbed a lot of files, with a few "Ign ""s."" It ignored the first stable InRealease offering from Google. I wish it would Ignore AMD64 packages, pretty sure I don't need 'em...

Dan~, do you mean to say that I can be wrong about... anything? Pshaw, good sir. Tut. Err, do the Tut? Steve Martin, what a genius! "So little bad these days?" I agree that's true with Mint 17.3. That fact makes tiny problems seem huge-- if I let them be, you're absolutely right. Oh dear, I...

Thank you very much for your help, ThunderRd! Your command line plus my password and "Enter" gave me: A whole bunch of lines, mostly starting with "Hit," but a few "Ign" too. From Google, archive ubuntu.com, and packages linuxmint.com At the end: W: Failed to fetch...

Thank you very much ThunderRd! Copied and pasted as given, it then accepted my password. I'm ID'd as my-name shortened name in green, then "~$" in blue. Then: "Warning: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on 'dev/sda' ! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted." followed by normal...

Sorry ThunderRd, I must be messing up something that I should have learned by now. Thank you for your help!

"su" and "Enter" asked for my password. I typed it in (without the typing (being visible) and "Entered" The response was: the shortened version of my name (in red) and my-name (in blue) and the "#" sign. Before doing this was: my-name@shortened name ~ $ (all in green). Except for the "~ $"...

For some unknown but scary reason I cannot enter my password after sudo asks for it. The flashing prompt accepts no input from me. So I can't enter the "ls -a" etc command. Or anything.

Eep. Hoo boy, I'm asked to enter my password.. but typing at the prompt enters nothing. Ugh. It must be too late in the day, I'll get back to it tomorrow. Thank you, ThunderRd!

This probably doesn't belong in "Crashed" but I'm not sure where to post it. I'm being plagued again (it fixed itself for a while) with the Red "X" on the shield in the tray. Clicking "Information" in the menu reveals the message that ends the same after weeks. Only the date, time and number of...

Gosh booman, I'm probably too afraid of breaking things. In days far in the past breaking Linux very often meant wiping and re-installing Linux hundreds of times. I often learned nothing new by having to do this. Color me far too used to Win7, which literally nearly never ever went wrong. Before...

Far from home and soaking wet sounds not so great for you, good sir. Thank you Daniel~, getting to the right place "windowishly" rather than Command Line-ishly is easier than I thought. Thank you very much! I agree that Mint 17.3 is the cat's meow.

How I long for the past, when things like email were so much simpler and took less time. Not really, some things DO get better as we fumble and bumble along!

Thank you ThunderRd, you are beyond helpful!

You guys are absolutely the BEST Linux helpers in the known world! Ref Daniel's post #116 The very first screen in his examples looks darn near exactly, or maybe absolutely like my Terminal. Guess I shouldn't be concerned about the ~six "GTK critical...... failure lines? I hope not, 'cause I...