Upgrade failing trying to remove proxmox-ve meta=package

[ropeguru]

I am trying to upgrade my Proxmomx from 7.3-4 to the latest. However, when I run the upgrade I am getting the below error.


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

System not fully up to date (found 95 new packages)

 

[Chris]

Hi,
did you install on top of Debian? Then you might need to uninstall the default kernel by running apt remove linux-image-amd64 first. If that is not the problem please post the full output of apt update && apt dist-upgrade as well as your configured sources cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list /etc/apt/sources.list

 

[ropeguru]

Hi,
did you install on top of Debian? Then you might need to uninstall the default kernel by running apt remove linux-image-amd64 first. If that is not the problem please post the full output of apt update && apt dist-upgrade as well as your configured sources cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list /etc/apt/sources.list

If I can recall, it was installed via iso.. But it was quite a while ago.. Never had any upgrade issues until now.

However, ran through the process you mentioned if it was installed on top of Debian, and it seems to be working..

 

[Chris]

The following NEW packages will be installed: firmware-linux-free libslirp0 linux-image-5.10.0-23-amd64

Yes, the linux-image-amd64 package is your problem, remove it by running apt remove linux-image-amd64 then try to upgrade again.