Sorry to take so long to post this - my Linux partitions were full. I finally just installed or reinstalled v. 9.0.4 or whatever it is. Gave the partitions more room; everything is fine.
Although I do wonder because it seems the installs are getting bigger by a factor of several GBs and ... I wonder why.
Anyway, thanks to all those who posted.
Namaste.
GM
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