Ubuntu 10.04 Upgrade "Package "ubuntu-desktop" is marked for removal, but is in the removal blacklist." + Solution

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So far so good. Hit an issue on one machine that was running both Xubuntu and Ubuntu.

Need to remove xubuntu-desktop before doing the upgrade to let it go through properly.


apt-get remove xubuntu-desktop

Restart the machine and try the update again, should all go fine