Upgrade to 20.04 fails

[Colin Law]

On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 17:03, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>
> Am Samstag, den 03.10.2020, 10:36 -0500 schrieb Jack McGee:
> > On 10/3/20 7:15 AM, Volker Wysk wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Am Samstag, den 03.10.2020, 06:55 -0500 schrieb Jack McGee:
> > > > I am on 18.04 LTS. I want to use software updater to go to 20.04 LTS.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Software updater is offering that option but when I click on it, nothing
> > > > happens.
> > >
> > > I don't know about software updater. But I'd do it this  way, in a terminal (or better: in a virtual console):
> > >
> > > sudo -i
> > > apt update
> > > apt full-upgrade
> > > do-release-upgrade
> > >
> > > Be sure to have a backup.
>
> > Here is trying software updater from terminal:
> >
> >
> > jack at Desktop:~$ sudo apt update
> > (...)
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > 4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
> > jack at Desktop:~$ sudo apt upgrade
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Calculating upgrade... Done
> > The following packages have been kept back:
> >    wine-stable winehq-stable
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> > jack at Desktop:~$ apt list --upgradable
> > Listing... Done
> > wine-stable/bionic 5.0.2~bionic amd64 [upgradable from: 4.0.3~bionic]
> > wine-stable-amd64/bionic 5.0.2~bionic amd64 [upgradable from: 4.0.3~bionic]
> > wine-stable-i386/bionic 5.0.2~bionic i386 [upgradable from: 4.0.3~bionic]
> > winehq-stable/bionic 5.0.2~bionic amd64 [upgradable from: 4.0.3~bionic]
> > jack at Desktop:~$ update-manager -c
> > Checking for a new Ubuntu release
> >
> > Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
> >
> >
> >
> > What updates should I install.  WINE?
>
> The four that "apt list --upgradable" lists. You have two updates wich are
> held back ("not upgraded"). Probably you've set them to "hold" with "apt-mark".

I think it may not be that, try full-upgrade first, that may be
enough, though it may not.

Colin