Upgrade Issues - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

The other day I upgraded my Dell XPS from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and encountered a few bumps.

Unable to update "Snap Store": (null): cannot refresh "snap-store": snap "snap-store" has running apps)

This was resolved via

killall snap-store
snap-refresh

Dell Linux Assistant / Summerplace

I also had a problem with Docker Desktop. When attempting to launch it nothing would happen. It would not open, there was no crash dialog, nothing. I attempted to uninstall it but despite appearing like it had worked, when I attempted to re-install it I couldn't as Docker Desktop was still installed. I even tried to run the install from the command line via the command below, and this game a little more context:-

sudo apt-get install ~/Downloads/docker-desktop-amd64.deb

The following package has unmet dependencies
docker-desktop: Depends: python3-distutils but it is not installable.

Another application that had been repeatedly crashing after the upgrade was the Dell Linux Assistant (dell-linux-assistant) which kept crashing and complaining about a dependency called summerpalace. Attempts to upgrade summerpalace were met with

Package summerpalace is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'summerpalace' has no installation candidate

This suggested that there wasn't a Ubuntu 24.04 LTS version of this package so I removed it via

sudo apt remove summerpalace

It turns out that both the Docker Desktop & Dell Linux Assistant issues were related as once summerpalace was removed, I no longer had crash dialogs for Dell Linux Assistant, and Docker Desktop would launch as expected.

Originally published at https://chrisshennan.com/blog/upgrade-issues-ubuntu-2204-to-ubuntu-2404