Apt giving error --fix-broken not working

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 4:05 PM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:

> [...] apt update
> Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic InRelease
> Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-updates InRelease
>
> Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-backports InRelease
>
> Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
>
> Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu mantic-security InRelease
>
> Hit:6 https://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> 35 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
>
> But it does no update them. The list command does show libc6.
>
> how do I apply them ? I thought apt update would do that?
>

They may be held back due to Phased Updates, <
https://askubuntu.com/a/1421130>.

Try using Aptitude instead of Apt. Aptitude has a much better
planner/solver than Apt. Something like:

    aptitude update && aptitude upgrade -y && aptitude safe-upgrade -y

Jeff
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