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jpp1
Asked: 2024-08-25 15:11:21 +0800 CST

Why does update manager show unchecked updates which cannot be checked?

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I just do not understand why update manager, when showing the list of updates the will get installed includes items where the checkbox in front is unchecked and where it is not possible to check the boxes / enable the updates? What is a user supposed to do with that information? Ubuntu Pro is enabled for that machine, so it is not the list of Pro updates ...

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  1. Best Answer

    There is almost always more information visible if you run things from the command line.
    Click 'Remind me later' in the dialog, then try what is below

    More explanation: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/about-apt-upgrade-and-phased-updates

    Below you see the current state (at this writing) when doing so on 24.04.

    Note the lines saying
    The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing:
    The following packages have been kept back:

    ... the items listed under phasing is to reduce traffic, not everyone gets it at the same time.
    kept back things may well be installable but generally will replace or remove one package or more, if you install these you might also be hit by faults and bugs - yet to be detected.
    ( use sudo apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade to get them installed )

    $ sudo apt-get upgrade  
The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing:
  file-roller gnome-text-editor icu-devtools language-pack-en
  language-pack-gnome-en-base libicu-dev libicu74 libicu74:i386 liblzma-dev
  liblzma5 liblzma5:i386 python-apt-common python3-apt xz-utils
The following packages have been kept back:
  language-pack-en-base language-pack-gnome-en
The following packages will be upgraded:
  language-pack-gnome-sv language-pack-gnome-sv-base libpython3-dev
  libpython3-stdlib python3 python3-dev python3-minimal
7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
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