Release upgrade 22.10 to 23.04 dpkg error opera.timestamp

Some time ago i installed Opera via snap. I uninstalled it later, but since then I have problem installing new packages. I reinstalled Opera and also installed a stable deb version. This did not help, so once again I removed this. I would like now to do the release upgrade. The error I receive is:

readlink: missing operand
Try 'readlink --help' for more information.
stat: missing operand
Try 'stat --help' for more information.
Exception during pm.DoInstall():  E:Problem executing scripts DPkg::Pre-Invoke 'stat -c %Z $(readlink -f $(which opera)) > /tmp/opera.timestamp', E:Sub-process returned an error code

Error in sys.excepthook:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewText.py", line 138, in _handleException
    apport_crash(type, value, tb)
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeApport.py", line 57, in apport_crash
    apport_excepthook(type, value, tb)
TypeError: apport_excepthook() missing 1 required positional argument: 'exc_tb'

Original exception was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/lunar", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeMain.py", line 241, in main
    if app.run():
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 2042, in run
    return self.fullUpgrade()
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 1871, in fullUpgrade
    if not self.doPostInitialUpdate():
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py", line 906, in doPostInitialUpdate
    self.quirks.run("PostInitialUpdate")
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 99, in run
    func()
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 126, in lunarPostInitialUpdate
    self._maybe_prevent_flatpak_auto_removal()
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py", line 519, in _maybe_prevent_flatpak_auto_removal
    self.controller.cache.commit(
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-bk30gewy/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py", line 309, in commit
    apt.Cache.commit(self, fprogress, iprogress)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 668, in commit
    raise SystemError("installArchives() failed")
SystemError: installArchives() failed

The only topic related to this I found here: After deleting opera browser I have E: Problem executing scripts DPkg but this does not help. Anybody can suggest anything?

1. Remove packages that are no longer required

   sudo apt-get autoremove

2. Clean up APT cache in Ubuntu

   sudo du -sh /var/cache/apt

Either remove only the outdated packages, like those superseded by a recent update, making them completely unnecessary.

sudo apt-get autoclean

3. Remove older versions of Snap applications: What you have to do here is to create a new shell script and use the following lines in your script:

   #!/bin/bash # Removes old revisions of snaps # CLOSE ALL SNAPS BEFORE RUNNING THIS set -eu snap list --all | awk '/disabled/{print $1, $3}' | while read snapname revision; do snap remove "$snapname" --revision="$revision" done

Give it execute permission, run the shell script with sudo

4. clear temp files