I'm on Xubuntu 20.04.6 LTS and want to go to 24.04. My attempt to upgrade was blocked, with this message:
The following packages have been kept back:
fwupd-signed gnome-software gnome-software-common gnome-software-plugin-snap
ubuntu-software
I have no idea how to tell what's keeping them back, let alone how to fix it.
In response to a comment, here's some more detail: the updates are done by a script that records the output in a Journal directory I've created on all of my machines for this purpose. I doubt the details of that process are relevant. What is relevant, perhaps, is this part of the script:
apt-get --quiet upgrade
And this results (in part) with the following output:
The following packages have been kept back:
fwupd-signed gnome-software gnome-software-common gnome-software-plugin-snap ubuntu-software The following packages will be upgraded:
libfreetype6 libpython3.8 libpython3.8-dev libpython3.8-minimal libpython3.8-stdlib python3.8 python3.8-dev python3.8-doc python3.8-minimal python3.8-venv 10 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
A further comment suggested using apt dist-upgrade but that
just produces:
The following packages have been kept back:
fwupd-signed (1.5.11-0ubuntu2pop1.1~1632510283~20.04~5dec90e~dev => 1:1.4-1pop0~1728056142~20.04~abf83a6~dev)
gnome-software-common (3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.0 => 3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
gnome-software-plugin-snap (3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.0 => 3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
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I looked up the 3 not-upgraded packages on synaptic, and I have questions:
- the fwupd package has a comment about Canonical UEFI signing key. Would it be better to just delete the package, or track down how to sign, and if so how?
- the two gnome software packages remind me that this machine came with Ubuntu originally, and I transformed it to Xubuntu. Does that mean I no longer need gnome software at all? Can I just delete them?
