Phlp's questions

I've been trying to update my 24.04 system for nearly 2 weeks and most of the updates are being held back. Is there a distribution issue that is blocking the updates or might I have a problem on my system? Today, there were 718 updates and only 2 were installed, the rest were held back.

At first, I assumed it was a phased update issue so I've been executing apt update / apt upgrade commands daily with no joy. I've been led to understand that phased updates clear in a about a week so what I'm seeing seems excessive.

The upgrade to 24.04.1 is failing with a message that I need to make all updates before installing. As you can see in the attached log, I've attempted to make all updates however some 'esm-apps' updates are not being installed and I need to install Ubuntu Pro to update them. I am assuming these updates are not required to do the update.

There is a series of dotnet updates that are not installed, but I previosly removed dotnet. Are these the updates that is blocking the upgrade? If yes, can I get rid of them?

As an aside, I also tried the Software Updater and it exits without a message. :-(

Regards

$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu jammy InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                 
Hit:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease                          
Hit:4 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                             
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease                         
Hit:6 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease           
Hit:8 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/22.04/prod jammy InRelease        
Hit:9 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease
Hit:10 https://hub-dist.unity3d.com/artifactory/hub-debian-prod-local stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.


$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled:
  libheif1 libjs-jquery-ui libpathplan4 graphviz libgvpr2 libgvc6 libopenexr25
  python3-scipy libcgraph6 libmagickcore-6.q16-6-extra libcdt5
  libmagickwand-6.q16-6 imagemagick-6.q16 libmagickcore-6.q16-6 liblab-gamut1
  imagemagick-6-common libde265-0 libpmix2
Learn more about Ubuntu Pro at https://ubuntu.com/pro
The following packages have been kept back:
  dotnet-hostfxr-7.0 ubuntu-advantage-tools ubuntu-pro-client ubuntu-pro-client-l10n
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.


$ do-release-upgrade 
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.

$ sudo apt list --upgradeable -a
Listing... Done
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy-updates,jammy-security 7.0.119-0ubuntu1~22.04.1 amd64 [upgradable from: 7.0.5-1]
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.20-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.19-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.18-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.17-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.16-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.15-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.14-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.13-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.12-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.11-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.10-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.9-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.8-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.7-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy,now 7.0.5-1 amd64 [installed,upgradable to: 7.0.119-0ubuntu1~22.04.1]
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.4-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.3-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.2-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.1-1 amd64
dotnet-hostfxr-7.0/jammy 7.0.0-1 amd64

$ sudo apt remove dotnet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package 'dotnet' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.