problems upgrading to kubuntu 20.04 (jammy)

[Henri Girard]

Salvation : Aptitude !

The wonder of managing packets !

I don't use it often, but always when I am lost and my  distro too !


Le 30/03/2022 à 08:03, Martin van Es a écrit :
> I had do-release-upgrade problems too, relating to my Wayland desktop 
> disappearing while upgrading and not giving me a tty to gracefully end 
> the upgrade.
> Eventually I did get a tty and was able to wait for the upgrade 
> process to go silent (by inspecting top). So far my experience.
> The advice: install and learn to use aptitude. I shows you the 
> breaking packages in red and you can quickly jump to them using the B 
> key, offers you solutions and you can inspect which package depends on 
> what breaking version. It has quite a steep learning curve, but once 
> you know how it works, it can help solving many dependency problems 
> after upgrades.
>
> Good luck!
> Martin
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 7:47 AM Girard Henri <girardhenri at free.fr> wrote:
>
>     I work with ubuntu 22.04 for some time now. As I had problem (not
>     from
>     ubuntu but from me) I reinstalled it few times without any
>     problems. I
>     installed it too  as wsl2 in w11, it's not recommended because this
>     version is not ready for it ! without any problem and more I
>     installed
>     too gwsl2 (gnome wsl) and choose mate-desktop too... why ? because
>     mate
>     is light and very easy to uninstall if problems. Which rarely
>     occurs by
>     the way !
>
>     What I wanted to say I guess it's probably a kde problem as I use
>     mate-desktop and have no problem.
>
>     Sorry I don't answer your problem, but what I would do in you case is
>     install mate-desktop to see if it works and then if you want kde
>     you can
>     always uninstall it
>
>     Best
>
>     Henri
>
>     Le 30/03/2022 à 03:36, David Lang a écrit :
>     > As I frequently do about this time before a release, I attempted to
>     > upgrade my system to the latest release (do-release-upgrad -d) but
>     > this time I ran into some grief, some of which I've worked
>     though, but
>     > kde/X is still not happy.
>     >
>     > I kicked off the upgrade, confirmed that I wanted it to download
>     all
>     > the packages, and it started the download. Some (significant) time
>     > later I came back to the machine and the screen was blan (in power
>     > saving mode, normally disabled on this desktop). I rebooted the
>     > machine and got an error that something went wrong, press the
>     button
>     > to logout and contact the administrator (me). I rebooted again
>     (as the
>     > system was unresponsive, including alt fn and contrl-alt fn,
>     > control-al-del and control-alt-backspace. I then did alt f2 and
>     logged
>     > in at the command line and went though manual apt commands to
>     get the
>     > packages installed (including --fix-broken). I got htings to
>     where it
>     > is no longer complaining about any broken packages.
>     >
>     > But when I boot, I only get the command line login, if I login
>     and run
>     > startx I get the error that something has gone wrong and the
>     system is
>     > unresponsive.
>     >
>     > I have attempted to do apt install kubuntu-desktop, but get the
>     > following:
>     >
>     >
>     > Reading package lists...
>     > Building dependency tree...
>     > Reading state information...
>     > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>     > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>     > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>     > or been moved out of Incoming.
>     > The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>     >
>     > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>     >  plasma-workspace : Depends: libkworkspace5-5 (= 4:5.24.3-0ubuntu1)
>     > but 4:5.24.3-0ubuntu2~ubuntu21.10~ppa1 is to be installed
>     >                     Depends: libtaskmanager6 (=
>     4:5.24.3-0ubuntu1) but
>     > 4:5.24.3-0ubuntu2~ubuntu21.10~ppa1 is to be installed
>     >                     Recommends: appmenu-gtk3-module but it is not
>     > going to be installed
>     >
>     > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>     >
>     > I don't really want to tell apt to ignore dependencies, but that
>     would
>     > be my next step. But I figured I'd ask for help first.
>     >
>     > David Lang
>     >
>
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