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ERROR Dist-upgrade failed when upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04

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I am trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04 yet when running the sudo do-release-upgrade I get the error message:

Could not calculate the upgrade

An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

This was likely caused by:
Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu Please use the tool 'ppa-purge' from the ppa-purge package to remove software from a Launchpad PPA and try the upgrade again.

If none of this applies, then please report this bug using the command 'ubuntu-bug ubuntu-release-upgrader-core' in a terminal. If you want to investigate this yourself the log files in '/var/log/dist-upgrade' will contain details about the upgrade. Specifically, look at 'main.log' and 'apt.log'.

I checked /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log which contains the following message:

ERROR Dist-upgrade failed: 'Broken packages after upgrade: evolution-data-server, gnome-control-center, libgirepository-1.0-1, ubuntu-desktop'

I'm not familiar with these packages and they look necessary. Is it safe to run ppa-purge or sudo apt remove on them? How should I proceed from here?

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The `evolution-data-server` package is only essential if you want/need to use the GNOME desktop, as it's a backend server used by it, it's **not** part of the GNOME MUA `evolution`. If your packages are from 3rd party repositories, you should revert to the Ubuntu repository packages and not just remove them (if you want those features/functions available when you get to *jammy*)
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How do I revert them?
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`ppa-purge` is usually used for that purpose, https://askubuntu.com/questions/307/how-can-ppas-be-removed maybe helpful, but I've not used that tool in (>5) years so I'd prefer not to advise. If I've made many package changes from 3rd party, I usually opt to non-destructively re-install (ie. *Upgrade via re-install*)
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