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Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

I've got over 300 packages that have been kept back for over six months, seems a long time:

The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing: file-roller python3-distupgrade ubuntu-release-upgrader-core The following packages have been kept back: <list of 325 packages>

I cannot identify any one package that may be causing the problem, though not absolutely sure how to do that. I do not want to force any packages to upgrade with the risk of breaking something.

What am I not doing?

HP Z840 Xeon E5-2698 v3 × 32

Output from sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing: file-roller python3-distupgrade ubuntu-release-upgrader-core

The following packages have been kept back: (list of 328 packages deleted by me)

Solved. My last upgrade, done automatically from 22.04 to 24.04, had appeared to complete correctly, but I just installed and then checked with the Software and Updates package, which showed the upgrade was not fully completed. It required a partial upgrade and this has totally fixed the problem.

Colin Pegrum
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Currently (2024-12-31), on my Ubuntu:

$ . /etc/os-release ; echo $PRETTY_NAME
Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS

$ sudo apt-get upgrade --assume-no
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing:
  file-roller python3-distupgrade ubuntu-release-upgrader-core ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

For what it is worth, that is after having done the following...
The packages that actually CAN be installed, will be included in an upgrade initiated by:

$ sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade

This MAY though included a "higher level" of changes than just plain updates...
So beware!

Hannu
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