On Thursday 09 January 2020 at 21:00:57, 'smee via Dng wrote:

> apt show showed that firmware-misc-nonfree was not installed manually.

Does "aptitude why firmware-misc-nonfree" help?

> I tried a apt --fix-broken install firmware-misc-nonfree but that
> didn't do anything except mark it as manually installed.

How about "apt-cache policy firmware-misc-nonfree" or "aptitude reinstall
firmware-misc-nonfree"?


Antony.

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