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That worked great, thanks for the help. Apologies for slow repsonse.

I plugged my USB in last night, booted as usual, greeted with 83 updates available, this after a short spell in traction following a car crash. Question.. can I apply the updates to the USB installation?
Apologies for posting here if it's the wrong place.

Mark

Ok.. ignore this post please. I just ran Discover again, this time it updated so all's well.

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Hi, I receive the following message after hitting Update All button in Discover..

W: Failed to fetch https://mega.nz/linux/repo/Debian ...

Very much appreciate the input from everyone. I am now not only fully up to date, but also understand now how such a situation can occur. Big thank you!

Hi..
Update failed this morning with the following message...

https://i.imgur.com/l4n56BP.png

Updates were working fine 48hrs ago, I haven't been tinkering (honest) so is this just a temporary glitch in the matrix?

Many thanks

System: Kernel: 5.10.0-20-amd64 [5.10.158-2] x86_64 bits: 64 ...

I have decided to continue using MX Linux without nvidia drivers installed. Although work-arounds suggested initially appeared to fix the issue, subsequently those work-arounds created problems of their own. I do appreciate those that took time to look at this, thank you.

@roundup976 Have you had any issues where the nvidia gpu isn't being used by an application as had been expected?

Here are my steps, I will post them anyway.

1. run the command: sudo ddm-mx -p nvidia
2. open MX Package Manager, go to stable repos, sort on nvidia, uninstall all nvidia products
a. my main issue was ddm-mx did not remove the nvidia 510 version of nvidia-detect
3. reboot, verify nouveau is ...

The black screen with a blinking cursor was the problem I had with NVidia dirver 510 version. My card was not compatible, and the Nvidia Driver Installer tool would not give me an option for anything else in the stable repos. I used the MX Package Installer to re-install version 470 of the drivers ...

$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] [10de:1f91] (rev a1)

Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by the default drivers.
Your ...