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[stevef]

Please open a terminal by pressing 'Ctrl' 'Alt' and 'T' together

In the terminal window type or paste in this command

Code:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

followed by return/enter. When asked for your password, type it in followed by return/enter.
Then

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sudo apt-get update

Then

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sudo apt-get upgrade

Post the results back

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Obviously, other problems are going on. Not only that the update package won't install, but also the text file is not being saved. Now, is it the laptop or the Linux Lite distro? I believe it's the distro. Because as I'd mentioned before, I've never had this problem with other Linux distros.

I can't see what is happening on your system.
As a quick check, I've run the commands on a test system running Linux Lite 7.4 and captured the output below.
If the distro is the problem this should reproduce your symptoms..

List contents of home directory before running the command

stephen>$> ls -l
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jun 30 05:08 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 13 stephen stephen  4096 Jul 18 08:11 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  3 stephen stephen  4096 Aug  4 05:47 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  3 stephen stephen  4096 Jun 28 12:08 Music
drwxr-xr-x  4 stephen stephen 12288 Jun 28 12:08 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jun 27 13:50 Public
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jul 11 07:03 Templates
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jul 13 07:10 Videos
stephen>$>

Run the command

stephen>$> sudo apt-get upgrade | tee ~/"$(date +"%Y_%m_%d_%T")-apt-get-upgrade.txt"
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-6.8.0-63 linux-headers-6.8.0-63-generic
  linux-image-6.8.0-63-generic linux-modules-6.8.0-63-generic
  linux-modules-extra-6.8.0-63-generic linux-tools-6.8.0-63
  linux-tools-6.8.0-63-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing:
  nvidia-common ubuntu-drivers-common
The following packages have been kept back:
  inxi zenity zenity-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
stephen>$>

List contents of home directory after running the command
Note that a 667 byte file with date and time prefix has been written to the home directory

stephen>$> ls -l
-rw-rw-r--  1 stephen stephen  667 Aug  4 06:16 2025_08_04_06:16:13-apt-get-upgrade.txt
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jun 30 05:08 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 13 stephen stephen  4096 Jul 18 08:11 Documents
drwxr-xr-x  3 stephen stephen  4096 Aug  4 05:47 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  3 stephen stephen  4096 Jun 28 12:08 Music
drwxr-xr-x  4 stephen stephen 12288 Jun 28 12:08 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jun 27 13:50 Public
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jul 11 07:03 Templates
drwxr-xr-x  2 stephen stephen  4096 Jul 13 07:10 Videos
stephen>$> 

Display the contents of the file that got added to verify the contents and confirm the file is as expected.

stephen>$>cat 2025_08_04_06\:16\:13-apt-get-upgrade.txt
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-6.8.0-63 linux-headers-6.8.0-63-generic
  linux-image-6.8.0-63-generic linux-modules-6.8.0-63-generic
  linux-modules-extra-6.8.0-63-generic linux-tools-6.8.0-63
  linux-tools-6.8.0-63-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing:
  nvidia-common ubuntu-drivers-common
The following packages have been kept back:
  inxi zenity zenity-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
stephen>$>