I've got an issue with updates.

Running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. My daily "check for updates" command is:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade --auto-remove

A lot of times, it says that packages have been kept back, this is from just now:

Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  python3-distupgrade ubuntu-release-upgrader-core ubuntu-release-upgrader-gtk
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

I've used Ubuntu before (for years) but never seen it do this.

I have not configured anything to keep packages back.

If I copy paste the package list and do apt-get install ...package list... then it works fine.

Any idea?

CodePudding user response：

Is is most likely being caused by Phased Updates.

See https://askubuntu.com/questions/1420969/how-to-force-packages-that-have-been-kept-back-to-be-installed-as-automat for more discussion.