[RESOLVED] Error Message while updating KDE Neon User Edition Plasma 6.70

[marco07]

Hi folks:
The following is the message I got today while updating my Kde Neon user edition plasma 6.7.0.
Any comments about how to resolve these dependencies?
Thanks in advane!
Fatal error: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
pipewire-audio: Conflicts: pulseaudio
Conflicts: pulseaudio-module-bluetooth but 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10.1 is to be installed
Conflicts: pulseaudio
pipewire-alsa: Conflicts: pulseaudio
Conflicts: pulseaudio

[Snowhog]

How are you updating?

[marco07]

How are you updating?

I use the following commands in konsole:
pkrefresh
pkupdate
I also used Discover, which shows 28 updates available, however, it stalls while fetching updates.

[die.boer]

output of

apt policy pipewire-audio pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

?

[marco07]

output of

apt policy pipewire-audio pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

?

Here it is:

~$ apt policy pipewire-audio pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
pipewire-audio:
Installed: 1.2.6-2+24.04+noble+release+build3
Candidate: 1.2.6-2+24.04+noble+release+build3
Version table:
*** 1.2.6-2+24.04+noble+release+build3 500
500 http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble/main i386 Packages
500 http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble/main all Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.2.6-2+24.04+noble+release+build2 500
500 http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble/main amd64 Packages
500 http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble/main i386 Packages
500 http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble/main all Packages
1.0.5-1ubuntu3.2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main i386 Packages
1.0.5-1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main i386 Packages
pulseaudio:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10.1
Version table:
1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10.1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10.1
Version table:
1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10.1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/universe amd64 Packages
1:16.1+dfsg1-2ubuntu10 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
pt policy pipewire-aud

[claydoh]

The issue is having pulseaudio installed. Pulse and pipewire conflict with each other; certain core packages expressly have "conflicts" tags, specifically these updates that are trying to install.

You should not have pulseaudio installed unless you did so yourself, or you installed something that pulled it in for some reason.

As usual, I lost the link but someone had installed an equalizer for their old version of Strawbery or something, which used Pulse, but was no longer needed by the app. So the fix for them was to remove pulseaudio.

But Pulse and Pipewire can't coexist.

[marco07]

used the following commands to update:
sudo apt update and
sudo apt full-upgrade
they worked and the issue is resolved. I learned that in KDE Neon this is the best and most effective way to update.
Thanks to everyone for your comments.