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When doing sudo apt upgrade it says 'gnome-shell-common has been held back'. When I do sudo apt dist-upgrade it doesn't show gnome-shell-common, and sudo apt install gnome-shell-common says it will remove ubuntu-session, ubuntu-desktop and more key packages. How do I fix this?

gnome-shell-common:
 Geïnstalleerd: 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 
 Kandidaat: 3.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 
 Versietabel: 3.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500  
  500  nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 
  500  nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages
  *** 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 100 
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 500 
 500 nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 
 500 nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
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  • Please add output of apt-cache policy gnome-shell-common to the question.
    – N0rbert
    Aug 23, 2018 at 12:06
  • gnome-shell-common: Geïnstalleerd: 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Kandidaat: 3.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Versietabel: 3.28.3-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500 500 nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 500 nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages *** 3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.28.1-0ubuntu2 500 500 nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages 500 nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main i386 Packages
    – Yoran Jansen
    Aug 23, 2018 at 12:15
  • Did you forget to run sudo apt update before running sudo apt dist-upgrade?
    – N0rbert
    Aug 23, 2018 at 12:18
  • This is affecting me as well. Of course apt update has been run.
    – Egor Tensin
    Aug 23, 2018 at 13:01
  • I'm a third person experiencing this, so this seems to be a bug. More specifically, libmutter hasn't been upgraded in the bionic, which causes gnome-shell to fail to upgrade, which causes gnome-shell-common to fail: gnome-shell : Depends: libmutter-2-0 (>= 3.28.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1) but 3.28.2-2~ubuntu18.04.1 is to be installed. I guess the best thing to do is to wait.
    – r3bl
    Aug 23, 2018 at 13:08

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This error has been caused by them forgetting to update to a new version of the libmutter package, which is a dependency of the gnome-shell package (which itself is a dependency of gnome-shell-common):

Depends: libmutter-2-0 (>= 3.28.3-1~ubuntu18.04.1) but 3.28.2-2~ubuntu18.04.1 is to be installed

As of now, newer version of libmutter has been pushed, and you can now successfully upgrade both gnome-shell and gnome-shell-common packages.

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