Supposedly phonon-backend-gstreamer cannot be satisfied, so it wants to keep xine except xine can't be kept so it wants to remove all and everything kde including update-manager-kde.
Why backend-gstreamer canot be satisfied is a mystery to me though, from looking at the deps and the apt.log it marked every dependency for installation it appears. I really think there is a foreign package invovled somewhere. What happens if you run sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer && sudo apt-get purge phonon-backend-xine ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1053315 Title: dist-upgrade failed due to wanting to remove update-manager-kde To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1053315/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs