Could not determine the upgrade
R Kimber
richardkimber at btinternet.com
Thu Apr 28 19:08:20 UTC 2011
Hi:
On trying to upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04 I get:-
Could not determine the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
by held packages.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the
'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in
the bug report.
According to Synaptic, I have no 'pinned' packages (which is what I
understand 'held packages' to mean. I'm not upgrading to a pre-release
version, and I'm not running a pre-release version.
Before reporting a bug, I have two questions:
1) Does 'Unofficial software packages' mean *any* third party
application that isn't part of the Ubuntu distribution? That's what it
seems to mean, yet it seems so absurd that one can't upgrade a system if
you've added any unofficial application that I thought I would ask. Before
giving me the above message, the installer disabled third party sources, so
I assumed it would be OK. Nothing I've added is what I would regard as
part of *the system*.
2) What now? Does the error message mean that there is no upgrade path at
all, and that I have to re-install? Or is there some work-around?
Would deleting unofficial software be the solution? If so, how do I get
a list of these?
- Richard
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