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Q&A What are phased updates, and why does Ubuntu use them?

So I ran into that weird "packages being held back" problem while updating my system using apt. After some research, it appears to be the result of "phased updates". What are phased updates, any...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by ArrayBolt3‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by ArrayBolt3‭

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Q&A Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS)

Why is libvkd3d1 not upgrading on my system? (lubuntu 20.04 LTS) When I run sudo apt update, apt flags libvkd3d1 and libvkd3d1:i386 as upgradable, but sudo apt upgrade does nothing and reports tha...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Darth_Muldoon‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Is this a robust way to distinguish explicitly installed packages from those pulled in as dependencies?

When exploring the commands from this answer to my previous question, I found that the ist of packages includes a lot that were automatically installed due to dependencies. Obviously I'm interested...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by celtschk‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Peter Taylor‭

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