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The first time I run sudo parrot-upgrade several packages are removed, a few packages are downgraded, and a handful are held back. The second time I run sudo parrot-upgrade, a numerous flunkton of packages are ‘no longer needed’, many of them looking like they are rather important, a numerous flunkton of new packages are installed, and one kernel package remains permanently held back.
So how exactly do I update Parrot without leaving parrot-mate, lshw-gtk, and various other rather important looking apps I can’t remember off the top of my head up for grabs by apt autoremove?
ParrotOS iso in use:
Parrot-security-4.11.3_virtual.ova
Application used for flashing the iso:
VirtualBox
Logs/Terminal output(use pastebin or similar services):
Here’s a paste that demonstrates the sheer quantity of packages my system currently thinks I don’t need: https://termbin.com/95lb
Screenshots:
At the top of the screen, the Firefox icon is no longer there, next to the terminal and Pluma launchers. https://files.catbox.moe/buk8u9.png
I’m having the exact same problem, only it’s with Parrot-KDE and I installed it from the iso into the virtual machine. I used Parrot-kde-security-4.11.3_amd64.iso and this is the first time that I have installed Parrot and the only other thing I’ve done is run apt upgrade.
my parrot.list is:
## Parrot 4.x Repositories
deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot rolling main contrib non-free
deb https://deb.parrot.sh/parrot rolling-security main contrib non-free
everything else is commented out.
and the output from apt full-upgrade is:
apt full-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
coinor-libcbc3 coinor-libcgl1 coinor-libclp1 coinor-libcoinmp1v5
coinor-libcoinutils3v5 coinor-libosi1v5 figlet fonts-opensymbol insserv
libabw-0.1-1 libboost-locale1.74.0 libbox2d2.3.0 libcdr-0.1-1
libclucene-contribs1v5 libclucene-core1v5 libct4 libe-book-0.1-1 libeot0
libepubgen-0.1-1 libetonyek-0.1-1 libexttextcat-2.0-0 libexttextcat-data
libfreehand-0.1-1 libio-pty-perl libipc-run-perl liblangtag-common
liblangtag1 libmotif-common libmspub-0.1-1 libmwaw-0.3-3 libmythes-1.2-0
libnumbertext-1.0-0 libnumbertext-data libodfgen-0.1-1 liborcus-0.16-0
liborcus-parser-0.16-0 libpagemaker-0.0-0 libqxp-0.0-0 libraptor2-0
librasqal3 librdf0 libreoffice-common libreoffice-style-colibre
librevenge-0.0-0 libstaroffice-0.0-0 libuno-cppu3
libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3
libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 libvisio-0.1-1 libwpd-0.10-10 libwpg-0.3-3
libwps-0.4-4 libxm4 libxmlsec1-nss libyajl2 libzmf-0.0-0 lp-solve
moreutils sqsh startpar sysv-rc uno-libs-private ure
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apt-parrot libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-core
libreoffice-draw libreoffice-impress libreoffice-math libreoffice-writer
parrot-core passing-the-hash python3-uno winexe
The following packages have been kept back:
gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
The following packages will be upgraded:
apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils bsdextrautils bsdutils
cryptsetup cryptsetup-bin cryptsetup-initramfs cryptsetup-run eject
fdisk firefox-esr ghostscript ipython3 libapache2-mod-php7.4
libblkid-dev libblkid1 libcryptsetup12 libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libfdisk1
libgs9 libgs9-common libldb2 libmount-dev libmount1 libnss3 libpq5
libruby2.7 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules libsasl2-modules-db libsmartcols1
libsmbclient libssl1.1 libtomcat9-java liburiparser1 libuuid1
libwbclient0 libwireshark-data libwireshark14 libwiretap11 libwsutil12
lighttpd lighttpd-mod-deflate lighttpd-mod-openssl mount openjdk-11-jdk
openjdk-11-jdk-headless openjdk-11-jre openjdk-11-jre-headless openssl
php7.4-cli php7.4-common php7.4-json php7.4-opcache php7.4-readline
php7.4-sqlite3 postgresql-13 postgresql-client-13 python3-ipython
python3-ldb python3-lxml python3-pil python3-samba redis-server
redis-tools rfkill ruby2.7 ruby2.7-dev ruby2.7-doc samba samba-common
samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules samba-libs samba-vfs-modules
smbclient tshark util-linux uuid-dev uuid-runtime wireshark
wireshark-common wireshark-qt xserver-common xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-legacy xvfb zsh zsh-common
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
fonts-opensymbol gir1.2-polkit-1.0 libperl5.32 libpolkit-agent-1-0
libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libreoffice-common libreoffice-style-colibre
libuno-cppu3 libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3
libuno-sal3 libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 linux-compiler-gcc-10-x86
linux-libc-dev perl perl-base perl-modules-5.32 policykit-1
uno-libs-private ure
92 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 downgraded, 12 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 459 MB of archives.
After this operation, 245 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Something posted by one of the developers on the (Official) Parrot Facebook group a few weeks ago. I used it to upgrade after a fresh install of 4.1.13 (and after parrot-upgrade) in both VMware and KVM guests.
Do I have to use Facebook in order to get important news about Parrot OS? I feel like there is a decently sized midsection in the Venn Diagram of people who use Parrot OS and people who are not particularly fans of Facebook.
Yeah, a pinned post here with that instruction would be a good idea, or perhaps making parrot-core a required package so it’s always installed during a parrot-upgrade or apt full-upgrade. (I also wasn’t a fan of it automatically switching to full-upgrade because it’s a testing distro, I haven’t used Debian testing in awhile, so I don’t know if that’s normal behaviour, but I’d have preferred either a “Did you mean…?” message or an interaction asking me if I wanted to switch. But with 5.0 it’s moot anyway)