Chrome "forced" upgrades

[Nils Kassube]

John R. Sowden wrote:
> I received an update notice from Ubuntu (v16.04) including "Extra
> ffmpeg codecs for the Chromium Bro...".  I declined the Chromium
> update, as I have never installed Chrome or Chromium on my computer

But probably you have the package "ubuntu-restricted-addons" installed 
which depends on the package "chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra" for some 
reason.


Nils