Questions tagged [held-packages]

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Blacklist only one specific version of a package for upgrades

Let's say we have a package mypackage that is available in different versions from different sources. I do not want to disable any of these sources though. However, the currently latest version of mypackage is buggy on my system, but previous…
Byte Commander
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libsensors5 or libsensors-config upgrade problem

After upgrading my Ubuntu from 18.10 to 19.04 some packages were held back but I didn't really care since I thought the issues will be resolved in a few weeks when dependencies will be upgradeable to proper versions for my OS. After a while that…
croc
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The following packages have been kept back

I have already tried all the usual fixes to this .. no luck so far sudo apt-get dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept…
John Scott Stensland
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The following packages have been kept back

Here is a long list of packages that have been kept back: The following packages have been kept back: aptdaemon fcitx-frontend-qt5 gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 kde-style-breeze kde-style-breeze-qt4 libfcitx-qt5-1 libkf5archive5 libkf5auth-data…
Jacs
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grub held back from update for weeks

the two packages " grub-efi-amd64-bin " and " grub-efi-amd64-signed " have been held back from being updated(upgraded) by apt for more than a week now maybe two weeks. sometimes when the linux image gets updated, some packages get stuck on being…
Usermaxn
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mariadb-server : Depends: mariadb-server-10.3 (>= 1:10.3.25-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) but it is not going to be installed

Recognizing that this is basically a FAQ: nicholas@mordor:~$ nicholas@mordor:~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0…
Nicholas Saunders
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Can't install MySQL 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.10

I was following this instruction https://askubuntu.com/a/765458/490870 duke@ostrov:~$ sudo apt install mysql-server-5.6 [sudo] password for duke: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages…
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Issues with Unity Tweak Tool on Ubuntu 16.04

I recently installed 16.04 on my desktop, and one of the first things I did was install the Unity Tweak Tool (via the Ubuntu Software app store). It was working fine for a while. Later, after making some more customizations (installed Cairo-Dock,…
saltthehash
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Packages are constantly being held back

Seems like lately when I go to update my Ubuntu 22.04 machines I constantly see that packages are held back for seemingly no reason. Here's the latest: Earth:sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading…
Andrew DeFaria
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Hide hold back package from being listed in software updater and apt

I'm running 16.04 but downgraded the gedit package from 3.18.3 back to version 3.10.4 because of the new ugly and badly usable design, following this great answer by @Videonauth . His script installs the old gedit and all available and wanted…
Byte Commander
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How to unlock a package that was locked with Muon

I used the Muon package manager to lock a package to a specific version, but when I try to release the lock, I get the message "The package code could not be locked. Failed to write lock file." Also sudo apt-mark showhold is empty. I tried purging…
Mike
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Cannot Install Wine Using Apt, As I Am Holding Broken Packages

I recently decided to install Wine on my computer so I could run some Windows programs on Kubuntu 21.04. However, whenever I install package winehq-devel , I get the output below: darkbrave_@darkbrave-kubuntu:~$ sudo apt install winehq-devel Reading…
DarkBrave_
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Update unresolvable problem

When I am try to update my system , I am getting the following error: Could not initialise the package information An unresolvable problem occurred while initialising the package information. Please report this bug for the 'update-manager' package…
Ian
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apt : Differences between packages “held back” et “automatically held in their current state” and how should I manage this?

In aptitude, when I type g for go, I get amongst the proposed changes, a list of both "Packages being held back (232)" and "Packages being automatically held in their current state (48)". What is the differences between those ? I suspect their…
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couchdb : Depends: couchdb-bin (>= 1.6.1-0ubuntu4) broken packages

I encountered a problem trying to install couchdb on my Ubuntu 14.10 (GNU/Linux 3.10.23-xxxx-std-ipv6-64 x86_64) server. When I run apt-get install couchdb, I've got the following mistakes : The following packages have unmet dependencies. couchdb :…
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