Php pear update has been held back

[danwtsa]

SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version	Ubuntu Linux 24.04.2
Webmin version	2.303
Virtualmin version	7.30.8
Webserver version	Apache2
Related packages	SUGGESTED

Hello…

I have encountered a problem updating my Virtualmin server this morning. There is only one package to upgrade. PHP pear. When I try to upgrade to the newest version I get an error.

I have multiple versions of PHP installed through ppa:ondrej/php This error seems to be with PHP 8.3 (but I could be wrong)

Before I try doing something myself that could really make a mess of the system, I thought I would try to get better advice since this is a production server very important to my business!

Here is what it’s trying to install:

php-pear PEAR Base System New version 1.10.16+submodules+notgz-1+ubuntu24.04.1+deb.sury.org+1

Here is the error:

The following packages have been kept back:
php-pear
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php-pear : Depends: php-archive-tar (>= 1.4.9) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

How can I fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

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[ID10T]

Maybe wait. I’ve seen it a couple times where the php updates get out of sync and some get released early before the whole tree gets fixed.

EDIT: I just ran into this. But I’m pretty sure this is an upstream package thing and will be noticed quickly.

[Joe]

@danwtsa

deb.sury.org+1

This is a third-party package. Have you disabled the related sury repo since installing it?

If not, it’s a question/concern for the repo maintainers, as it’s a dependency issue with their packages. Sometimes there are changes that require manually removing and reinstalling a specific packages. This is most likely in cases where the OS has been upgraded since you installed packages from the third party repository.