Failing to upgrade 6.4.13 to 7 error "please-remove-proxmox-ve"

jhmelo

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Hello, Proxmox community,

I need some help here with this behavior with my attempt to upgrade my Proxmox.

I followed all the documented step-by-step (https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_6.x_to_7.0) and I'm stuck with the following error:

523 upgraded, 84 newly installed, 34 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/254 MB of archives.
After this operation, 173 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
W: (pve-apt-hook) !! WARNING !!
W: (pve-apt-hook) You are attempting to remove the meta-package 'proxmox-ve'!
W: (pve-apt-hook)
W: (pve-apt-hook) If you really want to permanently remove 'proxmox-ve' from your system, run the following command
W: (pve-apt-hook) touch '/please-remove-proxmox-ve'
W: (pve-apt-hook) run apt purge proxmox-ve to remove the meta-package
W: (pve-apt-hook) and repeat your apt invocation.
W: (pve-apt-hook)
W: (pve-apt-hook) If you are unsure why 'proxmox-ve' would be removed, please verify
W: (pve-apt-hook) - your APT repository settings
W: (pve-apt-hook) - that you are using 'apt full-upgrade' to upgrade your system
E: Sub-process /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook returned an error code (1)
E: Failure running script /usr/share/proxmox-ve/pve-apt-hook
root@alpha:/etc/apt# pve6to7 --full
= CHECKING VERSION INFORMATION FOR PVE PACKAGES =


Before started the upgrade steps, I checked within the command pve6to7 --full to confirm if was all good, and the output showed WARNINGS: 1 and FAILURES: 0, but the last stage of the process I got this issue of the output above.

the I run the same command again pve6to7 --full , and I found the following WARNING:

= SUMMARY =

TOTAL: 20
PASSED: 17
SKIPPED: 2
WARNINGS: 1
FAILURES: 0

ATTENTION: Please check the output for detailed information!

This is the warning:

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I have updated all Debian repository entries to Bullseye.

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib

deb http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib

# security updates
deb http://security.debian.org bullseye-security main contrib

as welll the enterprise ( commented out because I don't have subscription)

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Not sure what is the issue here since I followed all the steps , and updated all the repositories from the current vcersion 6.4.13

Any help will be appreciated.
 

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