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!

    • @M4775
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      31 year ago

      If it is phased updates two weeks is not uncommon. In the meantime you can try to fix the packet manager and use full-upgrade which focuses on dependencies.

      sudo apt clean
      sudo apt update
      sudo dpkg --configure -a
      sudo apt install -f
      sudo apt full-upgrade
      sudo apt autoremove --purge 
      
      • @[email protected]OP
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        21 year ago

        I used dist-upgrade and it worked.

        It’s like 6.0 headers were the problem but I removed them with apt autoremove and it still shown the problem. apt dist-upgrade solved it by installing new dependencies. I don’t know why the normal apt update didn’t install them automatically.

        • @M4775
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          21 year ago

          OK, glad you got a result. It is odd, but some dependency issues have been observed lately. I don’t know why full-upgrade didn’t handle that after running that sequence. Here’s a little context;

          dist-upgrade
             dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
             also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
             of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
             it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
             expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
             command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
             contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
             files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
             the general settings for individual packages.
          
          full-upgrade
             full-upgrade performs the function of upgrade but may also remove
             installed packages if that is required in order to resolve a
             package conflict.