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Debian/UnattendedUpgrades: Packages kept back (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 weeks ago by MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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I've been using unattended upgrades without any problems until now. However, for the second time, I'm encountering an issue where I end up with a summary stating that some packages were not installed or updated. Among other things, it tells me:

Package imagemagick is held back because a related package is held back or due to local apt_preferences(5).

However, when I run sudo apt full-upgrade, everything is up to date and the packages are installed. sudo apt-mark showhold also doesn’t list any packages. So why am I getting the message that packages were held back?

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[–] theit8514@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

I would check the term.log/history.log files in the /var/log/apt folder to see if there's another process installing those updates.