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Huh" linuxlite  ~  sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-6.8.0-52 linux-tools-6.8.0-52
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following upgrades have been deferred due to phasing:
  libnvpair3linux libuutil3linux libzfs4linux libzpool5linux nvidia-common
  ubuntu-drivers-common update-notifier-common zfs-initramfs zfs-zed
  zfsutils-linux
The following packages have been kept back:
  inxi zenity zenity-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
N: Some packages may have been kept back due to phasing.
 linuxlite  ~  "

how can i solve this? the system is not upgrading
Your post has been moved to the updates section of the forum.

There's nothing really to solve.

The "upgrades have been deferred due to phasing" message means there is an upgrade in the pipeline, but it isn't being rolled out to your system - yet.  This is a safety mechanism which allows updates to be rolled out in phased batches.  The reason being that any new bugs are likely to surface before the upgrade is widely rolled out. It will eventually be released for your system.

The "following packages have been kept back" message regards some software (zenity and inxi) that has been deliberately marked as 'held' in the Linux Lite 7.x distribution by the Linux Lite developers.

There's no indication of any other issues, so your system is updating and upgrading all other components.
Thanks steve Smile