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**claydoh** · 2026-07-06T13:25:50

How are you launching the upgrade?

Are you fully updated before starting?

Do

Code:

sudo apt update

and

Code:

sudo apt upgrade

show any warnings or error messages?

Any PPAs added?

**die.boer** · 2026-07-06T17:25:19

please post outputs of

Code:

apt policy kubuntu-desktop

Code:

apt-mark showhold

Code:

grep -r ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Code:

ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt

**GGKazz** · 2026-07-06T17:58:54

Originally posted by claydoh View Post

How are you launching the upgrade?

Are you fully updated before starting?

Do

Code:

sudo apt update

and

Code:

sudo apt upgrade

show any warnings or error messages?

Any PPAs added?

I have tried using the graphic updater on my taskbar and also using the terminal using

Code:

sudo do-release-upgrade

I get an error about foreign packages installed:

Code:

Foreign Packages Installed

The following unofficial packages are currently installed:

steam-libs-i386:i386.....Installed from: unknown origin


It is recommended to install supported versions from the Ubuntu
archive, and try the upgrade again.

Do you want to continue the upgrade anyways?

**GGKazz** · 2026-07-06T18:01:15

Originally posted by die.boer View Post

please post outputs of

Code:

apt policy kubuntu-desktop

Code:

apt-mark showhold

Code:

grep -r ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

Code:

ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt

Code:

apt policy kubuntu-desktop
kubuntu-desktop:
  Installed: 1.480
  Candidate: 1.496
  Version table:
     1.496 500
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu resolute/universe amd64 Packages
 *** 1.480 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

These two don't give any results

Code:

apt-mark showhold

Code:

grep -r ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

The last one gives an error:

Code:

ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt
ubuntu-release-upgrader-qt: command not found

**die.boer** · 2026-07-06T19:30:17

ok nothing looks funny there
i would suggest to start the release upgrade normally,again. When it gets to the point where it proposes removing Dolphin, Konsole, etc., stop there and don't continue. At that point, gather the logs from /var/log/dist-upgrade/, especially apt.log
post the logs here

**Snowhog** · 2026-07-06T19:52:10

Run the upgrade 'simulated' so you can see exactly what will be removed/installed.

sudo apt --simulate full-upgrade

What may be happening/wanting to happen, is the removal of packages so that the latest release of the same can occur with the OS upgrade.

**GGKazz** · 2026-07-06T20:59:08

Right, so I don't know exactly what has happened now... I did not expect anything different to happen so I'm trying to remember the exact steps I took.
I tried running sudo do-release-upgrade again but it told me that the system wasn't upgraded. So i ran sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade again. It couldn't because apparently it was still running the upgrader. I might have accidentally closed it without ending the process there. I checked whether it was safe to close it and closed the process. Then I ran sudo dpkg --configure -a and sudo apt -f install. I then ran another sudo apt update and this time it wanted to update a lot. I let it update and rebooted and now it's running 26.04 LTS...
I do have wobbly windows and transparent inactive windows but most seems to be working well... Is there a way to check whether everything is correctly installed now? And maybe a way to check back what exactly happened?

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Upgrade tries to remove essential apps like Konsole and Dolphin

[Pre-Install] Upgrade tries to remove essential apps like Konsole and Dolphin

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