apt full-upgrade won't update on Debian testing (pawb.social)

submitted 5 months ago by forestbeasts@pawb.social to c/linuxfurs@pawb.social

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We're on Debian testing(+unstable) and running into update issues. apt upgrade doesn't touch anything, and apt full-upgrade wants to upgrade 2 libreoffice packages, not touch the 341 other upgrades, and remove the main libreoffice package.

How cursed of an idea is it to just sudo apt install $(apt-mark showmanual)? That looks like it would upgrade everything, while just removing a couple hopefully-inconsequential system libraries.

-- Frost

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[-] forestbeasts@pawb.social 11 points 5 months ago

Pupdate: Removing the xwaylandvideobridge package made apt full-upgrade work!

It was one of the things that would have gotten removed by the apt install. Turns out the other things that would be removed were just dependencies of it (and there was a conflict there).

aptitude full-upgrade also came up with a similar solution to this.

[-] jahtnamas@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

why does debian disembowel itself like this? i had this happen to a friend and it made me never want to touch debian again.

[-] forestbeasts@pawb.social 4 points 5 months ago

Debian Stable doesn't, to be fair! This is just the occasional debian-testing wonkiness.

And really the only bad thing that happened here was it refusing to install updates. It could be a lot worse.

-- Frost

this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026

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