I am trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 21.10 to Ubuntu 22.04. The notification to upgrade to 22.04 also came automatically. However upgradation did not work.
On trying to upgrade to LTS version using terminal, the following message is printed
$sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
The sudo apt upgrade print the following message:
The following packages have been kept back:
cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-ipp-utils dirmngr ffmpeg gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv ldap-utils libavcodec58 libavdevice58 libavfilter7 libavformat58 libavutil56 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcurl3-gnutls libfreerdp2-2 libinput-bin libinput10 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libldap-2.5-0 libpostproc55 libswresample3 libswscale5 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwinpr2-2 libxml2 ntfs-3g xserver-xephyr xserver-xorg-core xvfb xwayland
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded.
On trying to manually update or install any one of the above packages, it simply prints long list of dependency errors.
I do not how to resolve this. This problem has been asked quite a lot here at AskUbuntu but the solutions suggested did not work for me.
Is there any way to supress the error in these packages and move forward with upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04?
Update
The output of sudo apt update is as follows:
Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease
Hit:3 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
47 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
The output of sudo apt upgrade is as follows:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-ipp-utils dirmngr ffmpeg gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0
gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent
gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv ldap-utils libavcodec58 libavdevice58 libavfilter7 libavformat58
libavutil56 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcurl3-gnutls libfreerdp2-2 libinput-bin libinput10 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
libldap-2.5-0 libpostproc55 libswresample3 libswscale5 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwinpr2-2 libxml2 ntfs-3g xserver-xephyr
xserver-xorg-core xvfb xwayland
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded.
The list of external PPA's are as follows:
ppa:costales/yaru-colors-folder-color
ppa:linuxuprising/apps
ppa:numix/ppa
ppa:team-xbmc/ppa
ppa:kelebek333/mint-tools
The output of sudo apt full-upgrade is as follows:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-core-drivers cups-daemon cups-ipp-utils dirmngr
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0 gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data
gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server gpgconf gpgsm gpgv
ldap-utils libavcodec58 libavformat58 libavutil56 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcurl3-gnutls
libfreerdp2-2 libinput-bin libinput10 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libldap-2.5-0 libpostproc55
libswresample3 libswscale5 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 libwinpr2-2 libxml2 ntfs-3g xserver-xephyr
xserver-xorg-core xvfb xwayland
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
Update (18 July 2022)
The output of apt-cache policy cups is as follows:
cups:
Installed: 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1
Version table:
2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
*** 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The output of apt-cache policy cups cups-daemon libcups2 is given below:
cups:
Installed: 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1
Version table:
2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
*** 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
cups-daemon:
Installed: 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1
Version table:
2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
*** 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
libcups2:
Installed: 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2
Candidate: 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1
Version table:
2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1 500
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
*** 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
The output of sudo apt upgrade cups is given below:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
cups : Depends: cups-client (>= 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1)
Depends: cups-daemon (>= 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1)
Depends: libcups2 (= 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1) but 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2 is to be installed
cups-core-drivers : Depends: cups-daemon (>= 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1)
Depends: libcups2 (= 2.4.1op1-1ubuntu4.1) but 2.3.3op2-7ubuntu2 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
The output of apt-cache policy is given below:
Package files:
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
release a=now
500 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial/main amd64 Packages
release o=. xenial,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=. xenial,c=main,b=amd64
origin updates.signal.org
500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable/main amd64 Packages
release v=1.0,o=Google LLC,a=stable,n=stable,l=Google,c=main,b=amd64
origin dl.google.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/multiverse i386 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=i386
origin security.ubuntu.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/multiverse amd64 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=multiverse,b=amd64
origin security.ubuntu.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe i386 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=i386
origin security.ubuntu.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/universe amd64 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=universe,b=amd64
origin security.ubuntu.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted i386 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=i386
origin security.ubuntu.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/restricted amd64 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=restricted,b=amd64
origin security.ubuntu.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main i386 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=i386
origin security.ubuntu.com
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security/main amd64 Packages
release v=22.04,o=Ubuntu,a=jammy-security,n=jammy,l=Ubuntu,c=main,b=amd64
origin security.ubuntu.com
Pinned packages:
