Mint Debian- mint 1 update fails "there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up"

[drden]

Hello, I'm sorry I am a newbie with Linux distro's.
I am not real familiar with Mint as I am a Windows user mostly and just have been using Mint for several months.
I am not sure which version I have and
When I type "mintwelcome" in the terminal I get:

/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWelcome/mintWelcome.py:166: GtkWarning: gtk_container_add: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed
  gtk.main()

So, all I can say is I have the most recent version I can get on 12-6-10, I downloaded the latest version and installed about a month ago. I don't know what to do to get "mintwelcome to work right either. although,
I have the latest Debian Mint release and when I try to update it through it's icon (at the bottom right hand side) I get an error.
The update it's trying to do is this: "level 1 mintdesktop new version 3.22 from 3.21 size 11 KB"

When I try to do the update:
It says at the top of the screen that I am a "superuser". It also reports that "update is unsuccessful" then in the "details" it says
"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mintdesktop_3.2.2_all.deb: there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up"

I love not using windows and would like to convert all of my windows machines to mint. I like the "debian" version because it can be updated to new versions instead of being stuck at a version 8 or 9 like the Ubuntu version of mint.
Thanks to whoever can help me in advance. I really appreciate the help and the great work of the developers mint debian.
All your work is appreciated from us "Newbie MS Window's converts".

[Chasester (chasester)]

Confirming, same details.

[Justin Krehel (jkrehel)]

This is a known error - please see http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1595 for resolution.

This issue should not occur in the future as it's an issue with version 3.2.1. Like Clem said, please accept our apologies for this bug.

I am marking this as fixed, since his workaround is the fix, and the package will be updated in the next LMDE so we don't have to do this again. :)

Thank you for reporting.

[drden (drden2000)]

Hello and thanks for the reply.

I tried the fix you suggested but still it's not fixed.
Here is a copy of what I did.

Mint-Debian dennis # apt update
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release.gpg
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/main Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates Release
Get:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release.gpg [198 B]
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/import Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/import Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main Translation-en
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing Release.gpg [835 B]
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/contrib Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/contrib Translation-en_US
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/main i386 Packages
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release.gpg
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/upstream Translation-en
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian/upstream Translation-en_US
Get:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com debian Release [6,512 B]
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib i386 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org testing/updates/non-free i386 Packages
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing/non-free Translation-en_US
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org testing Release [89.9 kB]
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing/non-free Translation-en_US
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing Release
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main i386 Packages
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream i386 Packages
Hit http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing/non-free i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/main i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/main i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/upstream i386 Packages
Ign http://packages.linuxmint.com debian/import i386 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org testing/contrib i386 Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://packag...

[drden (drden2000)]

Hello I am an idiot!

I found the file and realized that I made a syntex error... I spelled it wrong.

Im so sorry. So just forget what I wrote earlier.

Thanks so much and I love Mint, I am planning to never have to go to windows again... except for games that is.
Thanks again!