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Hi, I've this situation when I apt upgrade. There are many pipewire-related packages kept back. Why? How can I solve it?
Thank you!
EDIT: dist-upgrade summary
EDIT2: Ok I solved it with
apt autoremove # only to remove old packages. it didn't solved the problem
apt update
apt dist-upgrade
Look into the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade: https://tecadmin.net/difference-between-apt-upgrade-vs-apt-dist-upgrade/
Yep, I see this problem every time I upgrade full versions. Always finish off your upgrades with a dist-upgrade and the packages will get cleared up.
Thank you, I updated the post with a summary of the dist-upgrade command
Looks like some incompatibility with the Nvidia drivers is hold some packages back.
You say that because they are listed as removable? If so because I updated from 515 to 525 months ago and today from 525 to 535. I think they are still there but are not used anymore and are safe
You're totally right, I had glanced too quickly and thought they were "removed"
~~Sounds as expected~~
Is this basically Ubuntu?
They do intentionally hold back packages based on a random value to do gradual rollouts. See below:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1431940/what-are-phased-updates-and-why-does-ubuntu-use-them
Could this be your issue?
Sorry, I forgot to mention that it's Pop OS. And I think it started to be stuck in this mode 2 weeks ago
The Ubuntu based distros may have this phased update thing. That AskUbuntu link has a command to override APT package manager to install the held-back packages.
Ubuntu tends to hold back system critical packages in case there are issues. Systems with certain install UUIDs will be 'guinea pigs' and install these packages before everyone else. You can override this behavior and disable phased updates on that particular computer.
apt dist-upgrade will sometimes resolve this.
Thank you, I updated the post with a summary of the dist-upgrade command
So it looks like your old linux headers are causing dependency issues that are preventing upgrades. The dist-upgrade will delete the conflicting packages and update the dependencies. You should be good after that.
You could also try aptitude upgrade instead of apt-get. It tends to handle packages that are kept back better.
Maybe some other packages might have problems with the newer versions. Or it could be one package being kept back due to such reasons and others are its dependencies which also gets kept back to make sure it does not break.
not sure about apt, but with apt-get the default behavior for upgrade is to hold back packages with new dependencies that are not currently installed. in that case, running sudo apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs should get those packages upgraded as well, assuming that dependency conflicts aren't a factor, too
nVidia drivers are a serious pain. You could brick your system if you aren't careful.
Brick is a big word. Nothing that can't be fix by booting a rescue image and chrooting into your OS.
You say that because they are listed as removable? If so because I updated from 515 to 525 months ago and today from 525 to 535. I think they are still there but are not used anymore and are safe
At most I think you'd have to blacklist the module from loading at boot time.
you can always run: rmmod nvidia and rmod nouveau. And then buy an AMD videocard. This works always! Thank me later!