Upgrade to 20.04 fails

[Jack McGee]

On 10/3/20 11:29 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.


Full upgrade did not work.  Tried fix broken packages.  I used Synaptic 
to purge WINE completely.   Then it upgraded to 20.04.