Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[John R. Sowden]

I cannot tell.  I went to Syn Pkg Mrg and searched for "chrom", to 
include Chromium, and got a couple dozen packages.  None of them are 
installed.  Then I ran the catfish file finder and found 143 results.  
Some were for "chroma", etc. 45 were from:
/lib/modules/3.13.0-79-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/chrome/chromeos_laptop.ko

That looks like the basic Linux kernel.  These include about 20 
directories called "chrome".

Hope that answers your question.

John




On 10/17/2017 09:54 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 17 October 2017 at 17:09, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> I have had a similar issue with Chrome, the browser written by a company who
>> collects personal information.  This 'open source' program has part that is
>> 'not open source'.  I cannot keep it off my computer.  Whenever I accept
>> updates from Ubuntu (16.04), there is lots of 'chrome' afterwards.
> Can you tell us the name of one of the offending packages please, and
> also what you see for
> apt-cache policy the-package-name
>
> Colin
>