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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 that the packages have been kept back.
Much obliged for any advice!
Postscript: Here is the output of apt upgrade and apt list --upgradable, along with my version information:
~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libvkd3d1 libvkd3d1:i386
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
~$ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
libvkd3d1/focal 1.2~focal-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 1.1-4]
libvkd3d1/focal 1.2~focal-1 i386 [upgradable from: 1.1-4]
~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
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| Darth_Muldoon | (no comment) | Feb 4, 2022 at 17:39 |
In Debian derivatives (of which Ubuntu is one), and more generally those distributions that use the Debian apt package manager tool suite, for packages to be "kept back" during an upgrade means that upgrading those packages would require some change that the requested type of upgrade is prevented from performing.
For example, if a package upgrade would pull in a new package, then upgrade won't upgrade that package (because upgrade won't install any new packages), and consequently any further packages that depend on the kept-back package having been upgraded will also be kept back.
To perform such an upgrade, depending on whether you prefer to use apt or apt-get, you need to use either apt full-upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade respectively.
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