[Software] Chromium failed update

[toni75]

Yesterday I installed the proposed software updates on Debian 12, including Chromium, and that made Chromium disappear. Trying to install it again throws this error message:

I seguenti pacchetti hanno dipendenze non soddisfatte:
chromium : Dipende: libc++1-19 (>= 1:19.1.4) ma non è installabile
Dipende: libc++abi1-19 (>= 1:19.1.4) ma non è installabile
Dipende: libunwind-19 (>= 1:19.1.4) ma non è installabile
Dipende: chromium-common (= 131.0.6778.108-1~deb12u1) ma non sta per essere installato
E: Impossibile correggere i problemi, ci sono pacchetti danneggiati bloccati.

Messages are in Italian but I think they're understandable.
It seems dependencies for a new chromium version are not satisfied.

Can someone help me?
thanks in advance

[sunrat]

It seems dependencies for a new chromium version are not satisfied.

Probably a reasonable assumption. They were held back in Bookworm update/upgrade today:

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The following packages have been kept back:
  chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox

[bbbhltz]

Possible temporary fix here

viewtopic.php?p=812539#p812539

[stevepusser]

Fixed now for me in standard Debian Security...

[sunrat]

Fixed now for me in standard Debian Security...

Weird stuff here. apt still showed

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The following packages have been kept back:
  chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox

So I tried with aptitude:

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# aptitude upgrade chromium
Resolving dependencies...                
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libc++1-19{a} libc++abi1-19{a} libunwind-19{a} 
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  cmake-data{u} libc++1-16{u} libc++abi1-16{u} libjsoncpp25{u} libunwind-16{u} linux-headers-6.1.0-27-common{u} 
  system-config-printer-udev{u} 
The following packages will be upgraded:
  chromium chromium-common

But not chromium-sandbox! (The removed packages are probably not related). Installed those with aptitude and I then went back and did apt upgrade and it installed chromium-sandbox. I now have the new security version of chromium installed and working. Sometimes the road to success has some strange twists and turns.

[Borg]

Messages are in Italian but I think they're understandable.

You can always enforce the message in English by putting a

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LANG=en

in front of the command. This is temporary and only applies to the command that follows on the same command line. It also works on man pages, for cases when you want to read the man pages in English. Sometimes the English ones are a bit more detailed and more up-to-date.

Example:

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root@machine:~# LANG=en apt update
Hit:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

root@machine:~# LANG=en apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  chromium chromium-common chromium-l10n chromium-sandbox
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

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$ LANG=EN man apt
# shows man page of apt in English

BTW. i have the same error message.

I would assume that the Debian maintainers will fix the bug in the next few days, so I don't have to do anything but wait.
Am I right?

My default browser is Firefox anyway, so I might as well just wait for Chromium.

[toni75]

Messages are in Italian but I think they're understandable.

You can always enforce the message in English by putting a

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LANG=en

in front of the command. This is temporary and only applies to the command that follows on the same command line. It also works on man pages, for cases when you want to read the man pages in English. Sometimes the English ones are a bit more detailed and more up-to-date.

Example:

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root@machine:~# LANG=en apt update
Hit:1 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:3 https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

root@machine:~# LANG=en apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  chromium chromium-common chromium-l10n chromium-sandbox
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

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$ LANG=EN man apt
# shows man page of apt in English

Very useful, thank you very much!

[Alt+F4]

The dependencies are now available in Bookworm (stable-updates), just 'apt install chromium' or 'apt dist-upgrade'. No need to modify the apt repository.

[Borg]

Very useful, thank you very much!

You're welcome.

The dependencies are now available in Bookworm (stable-updates), just 'apt install chromium' or 'apt dist-upgrade'. No need to modify the apt repository.

Thank you. 'apt dist-upgrade' solved it.

[eamanu]

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