Please install all available updates for your release before

[bobptz]

Hello

I am trying to upgrade Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04.

First I try to run a normal update, so that later I can click on the upgrade button.

I saw this message:

waiting for unattended-upgr to exit

I pressed ESC and tried again. This is the message I get:

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

Somebody suggested these commands, but it still failed:

$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for bob:
Hit:1 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nemh/systemback/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Hit:4 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
Get:6 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:11 http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 325 kB in 0s (373 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
bob@bob-i5-dell:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
va-driver-all
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
bob@bob-i5-dell:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
va-driver-all
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
bob@bob-i5-dell:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
bob@bob-i5-dell:~$ sudo apt-get clean
bob@bob-i5-dell:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
bob@bob-i5-dell:~$

[westie457]

Give this a try

sudo apt install va-driver-all
sudo apt update
sudo apt do-release-upgrade Let us know what happens.

[bobptz]

Hi

Yes, the problem was the "va-driver-all". This fixed the problem:


sudo apt-get purge va-driver-all

[inperfect]

Just for the record.

The solution is basically install/purge all the packages listed after


The following packages have been kept back:
name_of_package1 name_of_package_2


That is:


sudo apt-get install name_of_package1 name_of_package_2.....

Then perform the regular comands for distro upgrade:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install do-release-upgrade

(the last in case the "do-release-upgrade" tool is not installed) and


sudo do-release-upgrade

I had a different list of packages, and after installing them the problem was (of course) solved too (not any other comand receipe "tutorials" worked).

Thank you westie457!

[wildmanne39]

Old thread back to sleep.