[Solved] What's wrong with the update?

[jasonnix]

Hello,
I want to update the system, but I get the following message:

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# apt update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease 
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease           
Reading package lists... Done                     
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
2 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
#
# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libsemanage-common passwd
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

What is wrong?

Thank you.

[bbbhltz]

Hello. Nothing is wrong here. This is a common occurrence that can happen for differen reasons. Maybe dependencies changed for one of the packages you have installed so that a new package must be installed to perform the upgrade.

If you need that package you can try running

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sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade <packages>

or simply

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sudo apt-get install <packagea>

The former might be the better solution (maybe wait for a second opinion).

I tend to be cautious when this happens. So, do not do a dist-upgrade as it could remove packages.

[PsychoHermit]

If you do a dist-upgrade it will tell you what it's going to do and you can always say no if it's going to remove packages.

--glenn

[pbear]

What versions do you have at present. Here's what I see (bookworm stable, fully updated):

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All packages are up to date.
root@debian:~# apt list passwd
Listing... Done
passwd/stable,now 1:4.13+dfsg1-1+b1 amd64 [installed]
root@debian:~# apt list libsemanage-common
Listing... Done
libsemanage-common/stable,now 3.4-1 all [installed]

FWIW, I always use apt full-upgrade, which is basically the same thing as apt-get dist-upgrade. Never had a problem.

[jasonnix]

Hello. Nothing is wrong here. This is a common occurrence that can happen for differen reasons. Maybe dependencies changed for one of the packages you have installed so that a new package must be installed to perform the upgrade.

If you need that package you can try running

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sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade <packages>

or simply

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sudo apt-get install <packagea>

The former might be the better solution (maybe wait for a second opinion).

I tend to be cautious when this happens. So, do not do a dist-upgrade as it could remove packages.

Hello,
Thank you so much.
problem solved.