[Bug 1018367] Re: Unable to remove unattended-upgrades

[Aiman Baharna]

This bug affects Ubuntu 12.04 as well as Xubuntu 11.04:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12057828#post12057828

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Title:
  Unable to remove unattended-upgrades

Status in “unattended-upgrades” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The presence of /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades (in package
  unattended-upgrades) prevents editing the option for deciding how
  security updates should be handled in Software Sources dialog
  (Software Sources -> Updates -> When there are security updates). In
  fact, the combo box for this option is disabled.

  However, I cannot remove unattended-upgrades. Because attempting to do so display this:
  > sudo apt-get remove unattended-upgrades
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    launchpad-getkeys yad
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    docbook-xsl kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdebase-runtime kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data
    kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools libattica0 libclucene0ldbl libdbusmenu-qt2 libdlrestrictions1 libiodbc2
    libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4 libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5
    libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkidletime4 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4
    libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4
    libktexteditor4 libmysqlclient16 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libnepomukutils4 libntrack-qt4-1
    libntrack0 libphonon4 libplasma3 libpolkit-qt-1-1 libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql-mysql libsolid4
    libsoprano4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4 mysql-common ntrack-module-libnl-0 phonon
    phonon-backend-gstreamer plasma-scriptengine-javascript shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon
  Suggested packages:
    docbook-xsl-doc-html docbook-xsl-doc-pdf docbook-xsl-doc-text docbook-xsl-doc libsaxon-java
    docbook-xsl-saxon fop xalan dbtoepub djvulibre-bin hspell libqt4-dev phonon-backend-vlc
    phonon-backend-xine phonon-backend-mplayer
  Recommended packages:
    virtuoso-minimal kubuntu-debug-installer icoutils libcanberra-pulse libcanberra-gstreamer
  The following packages will be REMOVED
    aptdaemon apturl language-selector-gnome python-aptdaemon python-aptdaemon-gtk
    python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets python-aptdaemon.gtkwidgets python-software-properties sessioninstaller
    software-center software-properties-gtk unattended-upgrades xubuntu-desktop xul-ext-ubufox
    y-ppa-manager
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    docbook-xsl kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data kdebase-runtime kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data
    kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools libattica0 libclucene0ldbl libdbusmenu-qt2 libdlrestrictions1 libiodbc2
    libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4 libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5
    libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkidletime4 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4
    libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff3-4 libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4
    libktexteditor4 libmysqlclient16 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libnepomukutils4 libntrack-qt4-1
    libntrack0 libphonon4 libplasma3 libpolkit-qt-1-1 libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql-mysql libsolid4
    libsoprano4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libthreadweaver4 mysql-common ntrack-module-libnl-0 phonon
    phonon-backend-gstreamer plasma-scriptengine-javascript shared-desktop-ontologies soprano-daemon
  0 upgraded, 61 newly installed, 15 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

  A temporary workaround is to comment out  all the content in
  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.

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