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"The following packages have been kept back:" Why and how do I solve it?

I just added a PPA repository for the development version of the GIMP, but I get this error: $ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade ... The following packages have been kept back: gimp gimp-...
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Exclude packages from `apt-get upgrade` [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to prevent updating of a specific package? Keep the Ubuntu package version I'm using now Is it possible to upgrade all packages except a given package? Is there ...
Olivier Lalonde's user avatar
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How to get a list of installed packages held back from upgrade?

Recently, I needed to get a list of packages that were installed on my Ubuntu system which were also put on hold for upgrade. The 'hold' status for a package means that when the operating system is ...
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How do I get AMD/Intel Hybrid Graphics drivers to work?

On Ubuntu 12.04 my Sony Vaio VPCSE with Intel® HD Graphics 3000 and AMD Radeon™ HD 6630M worked fine with the Catalyst Control Center version 12.6. Also the switching between integrated and discrete ...
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How to forbid a specific package to be installed?

Can I configure Ubuntu to never install a specific package even if it is required by another package I install?
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Why does gedit keep randomly opening new instances when opening files from nautilus?

Oh how I love Ubuntu and all its features, but this "bug" has been making me angry for so long and I've finally decided to ask for help here. I've assigned all .php files to be opened with gedit ...
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How to update/upgrade PHP 7.2 to latest version safely?

I am running a WordPress website over LEMP stack server on Ubuntu 18.04 on DigitalOcean. WordPress is recommending me to update my PHP to the latest version. I am running PHP 7.2.17; Please tell me ...
Brajmohan Kumar's user avatar
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Need to prevent a package from being installed [duplicate]

I have a package I do not want to be installed even if another needs it. Is there any way to "blacklist" a package from being installed even as a dependency of another? Can I overcome the fact that ...
Bruno Pereira's user avatar
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Firefox: notify me before update

I'm using Firefox 96.0 on Kubuntu (96.0+build2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1) Sometimes, firefox updates in the background and then comes up with a message "Sorry. We just need to do one small thing to keep ...
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How to downgrade kernel after bad update (16.04)

Recent upgrades to the Ubuntu 16.04 kernel (4.4.0-89 and -91) failed badly on my laptop. Happily, I've got the previous, working version still installed (4.4.0-57). For now I've got Grub configured ...
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How to never update nvidia driver

I saw this similar question with no definitive answer. What I think that I need What I want to do is to prevent any update of my Nvidia graphical card. I tried to put it on hold, but I couldn't find ...
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How to downgrade Firefox from 30 to 28?

I've accidentally sudo apt-get upgrade (while c/p-ing instructions to do something and failing to notice that it isn't sudo apt-get update) and it upgraded Firefox from 28 to 30. Now my menus are ...
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Hold packages back from updates without APT Pin?

I know about pinning packages with Apt. That's not what I want to do. Other questions have been answered with either using pinning or by using pins temporarily. I don't want to do this. What I want ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 fails to boot even in recovery mode (stuck on loading initial ram disk) on ASUS UX433FA

So I had a working dual boot set up with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10, when I ran an apt upgrade and now I can no longer boot into Ubuntu (windows works fine), with the recovery mode output stuck at “...
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Do kernel updates require every version in between?

I am considering disabling auto-updates or pinning the kernel to a specific version. However I am concerned that when I later unpin the version, that all kernels in between the pinned version and the ...
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