itsfoss.com [Fixed] "following packages have been kept back" Error in Ubuntu
Seeing "The following packages have been kept back" Error while updating your system? Here's how to handle this error in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
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I'm on Debian 12. I did an upgrade today and got a message that pipewire-audio had been kept back. A few weeks ago I did a:
sudo apt install -t bookworm-backports pipewire
Which pulled in the newer version of pipewire so I could resolve an issue.
So I searched for 'apt kept back' and found the above article. I wanted to share it for anyone else in the future hitting something like this.
My solution is just to do nothing. Debian 13 should only be a few months away at this point and when I attempt to run an update only for pipewire-audio it indicates that I need to update wireplumber. I don't really want to go down the dependency hole at this time, so just going to let it chill.