Issue Dist-Upgrade Debian 11 to Debian 12 fails

[OGR]

Server operating system version

Debian 11.11 x86_64

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.65.2

The upgrade from Debian 11 to Debian 12 fails after the successful reboot at step 17 when using this guide:

How to perform dist-upgrade procedure on Linux server with Plesk?

Applicable to: Plesk for Linux How to perform a dist-upgrade? Warning: The dist-upgrade procedure is complex, hence you may want to consider migrating instead as explained in Plesk Migration and...

support.plesk.com

plesk installer update --skip-cleanup

The command fails with these errors:

Unpacking libodbc2:amd64 (2.3.11-2+deb12u1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-KzzUiP/12-libodbc2_2.3.11-2+deb12u1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libodbc.so.2.0.0', which is also in package libodbc1:amd64 2.3.11-3
dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

# and further down...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-KzzUiP/12-libodbc2_2.3.11-2+deb12u1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
/usr/bin/sw-engine: error while loading shared libraries: libaps.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

The libodbc1 package seemingly cannot be removed when trying to install libodbc2. The following dependencies for libodbc1 are installed:

• plesk-php74-odbc, plesk-php81-odbc and plesk-php82-odbc
• plesk-librdbmspp

I retried after uninstalling the PHP dependencies, but the "plesk-librdbmspp" is needed by "libaps" and that is needed by "sw-engine". Forcing a removal would basically remove all of Plesk. The problem seems to be the same as in this topic but it wasn't properly resolved there because completely uninstalling Plesk is not a solution.

Luckily this is a VM, so I have rolled it back to before starting the upgrade process for the time being.

Is there a proper way to fix this problem?

 

[mow]

try aptitude instead, it should be able to provide suggestions how to fix this

 

[OGR]

I am using aptitude for this. It wasn't able to provide a solution that doesn't completely remove Plesk.