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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.g97.top/post/56902

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!

EDIT: dist-upgrade summary

EDIT2: Ok I solved it with

apt autoremove # only to remove old packages. it didn't solved the problem

apt update

apt dist-upgrade

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is this basically Ubuntu?

They do intentionally hold back packages based on a random value to do gradual rollouts. See below:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1431940/what-are-phased-updates-and-why-does-ubuntu-use-them

Could this be your issue?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry, I forgot to mention that it's Pop OS. And I think it started to be stuck in this mode 2 weeks ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Ubuntu based distros may have this phased update thing. That AskUbuntu link has a command to override APT package manager to install the held-back packages.

Ubuntu tends to hold back system critical packages in case there are issues. Systems with certain install UUIDs will be 'guinea pigs' and install these packages before everyone else. You can override this behavior and disable phased updates on that particular computer.

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