Pop OS 22.04 can’t update gir1.2-mutter-10, libmutter-10-0

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For like two weeks now I see that gir1.2-mutter-10 and libmutter-10-0 have updates that are held back, but any attempt to install them fails. Even more, when simply trying to install them, I get error messages that are simply ridiculous. Apt claims that e.g. gir1.2-mutter-10 depends on libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.24.24) which isn't installable (but 3.24.33 is already installed). Those errors simply make no sense. Also, neither apt full-upgrade, nor apt dist-upgrade solve it, which normally install held back packages. Same with apt install -f. Sadly there's no support whatsoever on the Pop OS Reddit even after multiple users posting about that exact issue.

Here is the output of trying to install gir1.2-mutter-10 from a few weeks back. It's not translated to english, but I'd say it still makes it clear enough what problems apt claims to have. Has anybody any idea how to solve this without reinstalling Pop?

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Try these commands

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt --fix-broken install

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Most likely that mirror is dead. It makes sense since Ubuntu 15.10 was end-of-lifed on July 28, 2016. Meaning no more patches and no more upgrades. Your best and most solid bet is to moving to an LTS of Ubuntu such as Ubuntu 16.04; or Lubuntu 16.04 in your case.

But if you want to get a final round of patches in place, you can change your sources.list to point to the Ubuntu old-releases archive. Instructions can be found here.

First, back up your sources.list like this:

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.BACKUP

Then open up your sources.list file like this:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

And replace the contents with this:

## EOL upgrade sources.list
# Required
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-security main restricted universe multiverse

# Optional
#deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily-backports main restricted universe multiverse

And then run update like this:

sudo apt-get update

And when that is done, you should be set… In some way.

But honestly, you should upgrade to 16.04 LTS to get out of this mess.

Unable to update using apt. (the old “packages have been kept back” issue)

Remove hirsute from your /etc/apt/sources.list or the files under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, then run:

sudo apt update
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