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Strange "Can't guess meta-package" error message when run Software Updater

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Ubuntu 22.04.4, GNOME 42.9, Wayland.

When I run the Software Updater, I started getting the series of three error messages as shown in the three attached screenshots:

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When I run sudo apt update, it reports no errors, but does end by saying this: "4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them."

When I run sudo apt upgrade, it reports no errors, but does end by saying this: "The following packages have been kept back: libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-bin"

When I run sudo apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs for those four packages, here is the result:

main1@system1:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-bin libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev-binReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneCalculating upgrade... DoneSome packages could not be installed. This may mean that you haverequested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstabledistribution that some required packages have not yet been createdor been moved out of Incoming.The following information may help to resolve the situation:The following packages have unmet dependencies: chrome-gnome-shell : Depends: gnome-shell but it is not installable gdm3 : Depends: gnome-shell (>= 3.37.90) but it is not installable gnome-shell-extension-appindicator : Depends: gnome-shell (>= 3.33) but it is not installable                                      Depends: gnome-shell (< 43~) but it is not installable gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng : Depends: gnome-shell (>= 3.38) but it is not installable gnome-shell-extension-prefs : Depends: gnome-shell (= 42.5-0ubuntu1pop1~1675984688~22.04~f574f54~dev) but it is not installable gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock : Depends: gnome-shell (< 43) but it is not installable                                     Depends: gnome-shell (>= 40) but it is not installable ubuntu-desktop : Depends: gnome-shell but it is not installable ubuntu-desktop-minimal : Depends: gnome-shell but it is not installable ubuntu-session : Depends: gnome-shell (>= 3.37.91) but it is not installableE: Broken packages

But, chrome-gnome-shell, gnome-shell, ubuntu-desktop, etc., are all already installed and running just fine.

When I run Synaptic, it reports no broken packages.

Questions:

  1. What are these Software Updater error messages shown in the screenshots above trying to tell me?
  2. Are those Software Updater error messages related to the four libglib packages that are being held back?
  3. Why does tyring to install those four libglib packages report that I have broken packages?
  4. What should I be doing to fix whatever is wrong? (And, I do realize that one of the error messages above suggested using ppa-purge on some offending application, but I have no idea which application it is referring to.)

Thanks in advance for any help.

Update: Here is the output of sudo apt update:

> main1@system1:~$ sudo apt update[sudo] password for main1: Hit:1 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial InReleaseHit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                                                             Hit:3 https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                                                                      Hit:4 https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com stable InRelease                                                              Ign:5 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease                                                               Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates InRelease [119 kB]                                                            Hit:7 https://packages.element.io/debian default InRelease                                                                         Hit:8 http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release                                                                 Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-security InRelease [110 kB]                                                          Hit:10 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian jammy InRelease                                                            Get:12 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable InRelease [3,590 B]                                                        Hit:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports InRelease                                                                  Hit:14 https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable InRelease                                                                          Hit:16 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/agornostal/ulauncher/ubuntu jammy InRelease                                                Hit:17 https://repo.waydro.id jammy InRelease                       Hit:18 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/christian-boxdoerfer/fsearch-stable/ubuntu jammy InReleaseHit:11 https://packagecloud.io/filips/FirefoxPWA/any any InReleaseHit:19 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/diesch/stable/ubuntu impish InReleaseHit:20 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu jammy InReleaseHit:21 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/kelebek333/mint-tools/ubuntu jammy InReleaseHit:22 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/nextcloud-devs/client/ubuntu jammy InReleaseGet:23 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ng-hong-quan/ppa/ubuntu jammy InRelease [18.3 kB]Hit:24 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/system76-dev/stable/ubuntu jammy InReleaseHit:25 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/teejee2008/timeshift/ubuntu jammy InReleaseHit:26 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ubuntuhandbook1/menulibre/ubuntu jammy InReleaseFetched 251 kB in 2s (104 kB/s)Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... Done4 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.main1@system1:~$

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