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I want to upgrade my Ubuntu from 19.04 to 20.04, but it’s not possible until I update all my packages.
❯ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore.
For upgrade information, please visit:
http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife
Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading.
So, I’m trying to update my packages:
❯ sudo apt update
Get:1 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48 InRelease
Ign:1 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48 InRelease
Get:2 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48 Release [574 B]
Get:2 file:/var/cuda-repo-10-0-local-10.0.130-410.48 Release [574 B]
Hit:3 http://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-disk/deb stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://linux.teamviewer.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:6 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gophers/archive/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:8 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:10 https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease
Hit:11 https://storage.googleapis.com/bazel-apt stable InRelease
Hit:12 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-backports InRelease
Hit:13 https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu vs-bionic InRelease
Hit:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:15 http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco-security InRelease
Ign:16 http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64 InRelease
Hit:17 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linrunner/tlp/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:18 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/16.04/mssql-server-2019 xenial InRelease
Ign:19 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:20 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/16.04/mssql-server-2017 xenial InRelease
Hit:21 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu disco Release
Ign:22 http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64 InRelease
Hit:23 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/apps/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:24 https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/19.04/prod disco InRelease
Hit:25 http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64 Release
Hit:26 http://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/machine-learning/repos/ubuntu1804/x86_64 Release
Hit:27 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:28 http://ppa.launchpad.net/lyzardking/ubuntu-make/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:29 http://ppa.launchpad.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:30 http://ppa.launchpad.net/peek-developers/stable/ubuntu disco InRelease
Hit:31 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu disco InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
It says that I can upgrade 4 of them. Let’s see what they are.
❯ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
cuda-drivers/unknown 450.36.06-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 418.87.01-1]
cuda/unknown 11.0.1-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 10.1.243-1]
libnvidia-common-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 all [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libxnvctrl0/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
Let’s upgrade them.
❯ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
cuda-command-line-tools-11-0 cuda-compiler-11-0 cuda-cudart-11-0 cuda-cudart-dev-11-0 cuda-cuobjdump-11-0 cuda-cupti-11-0 cuda-cupti-dev-11-0 cuda-documentation-11-0
cuda-driver-dev-11-0 cuda-gdb-11-0 cuda-libraries-11-0 cuda-libraries-dev-11-0 cuda-memcheck-11-0 cuda-nsight-11-0 cuda-nsight-compute-11-0 cuda-nsight-systems-11-0 cuda-nvcc-11-0
cuda-nvdisasm-11-0 cuda-nvml-dev-11-0 cuda-nvprof-11-0 cuda-nvprune-11-0 cuda-nvrtc-11-0 cuda-nvrtc-dev-11-0 cuda-nvtx-11-0 cuda-nvvp-11-0 cuda-samples-11-0 cuda-sanitizer-11-0
cuda-toolkit-11-0 cuda-tools-11-0 cuda-visual-tools-11-0 golang-1.13-go golang-1.13-src golang-src libcublas-11-0 libcublas-dev-11-0 libcufft-11-0 libcufft-dev-11-0 libcurand-11-0
libcurand-dev-11-0 libcusolver-11-0 libcusolver-dev-11-0 libcusparse-11-0 libcusparse-dev-11-0 libnpp-11-0 libnpp-dev-11-0 libnvidia-common-450 libnvjpeg-11-0 libnvjpeg-dev-11-0
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages have been kept back:
cuda cuda-drivers
The following packages will be upgraded:
libnvidia-common-450 libxnvctrl0
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/31.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 354920 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libnvidia-common-450_450.36.06-0ubuntu1_all.deb ...
Checking for existing driver runfile install
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 6: /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: [[: not found
Unpacking libnvidia-common-450 (450.36.06-0ubuntu1) over (450.36.06-0ubuntu1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libxnvctrl0_450.36.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libxnvctrl0:amd64 (450.36.06-0ubuntu1) over (450.36.06-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libnvidia-common-450 (450.36.06-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libxnvctrl0:amd64 (450.36.06-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.29-0ubuntu2) ...
The problem is that they are not upgraded.
❯ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
cuda-drivers/unknown 450.36.06-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 418.87.01-1]
cuda/unknown 11.0.1-1 amd64 [upgradable from: 10.1.243-1]
libnvidia-common-450/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 all [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
libxnvctrl0/unknown 450.36.06-0ubuntu1 amd64 [upgradable from: 450.36.06-0ubuntu1]
Do I do something wrong? It might be that I don’t understand the real cause of why I can’t move from Ubuntu 19.04 to Ubuntu 20.04. Any ideas?
2
Answers
I just came across the same issue when trying to upgrade my
cudaon Ubuntu 20.04.sudo apt upgradewill only add upgrade/add packages, it will never remove packages.However, upgrading cuda usually requires removing a bunch of old nvidia driver packages and replacing them with new packages.
sudo apt full-upgradecan remove packages if required to update packages:(from
man apthttps://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man8/apt.8.html)Unfortunately, at least for apt version 2.0.5,
sudo apt full-upgradestill didn’t want to updatecuda.The Debian buster upgrade notes suggests that when
apt full-upgradedoesn’t work, you should either manually runinstallon the affected packages:sudo apt install cuda, or useaptitude‘s more powerful package resolution algorithms:I can confirm that using either
sudo aptitude full-upgradeorsudo apt install cudaworks, see the following outputs (edited for brevity)Using apt install cuda
Using aptitude full-upgrade
aptitudeisn’t installed by default, so you may need to runsudo apt install aptitudefirst to install it. Remember that althoughfull-upgradeis usually safe, since it does remove packages, it can occasionally break things in your system.Try:
If the same problem with upgrade another packages, you need to install them instead upgrade.