Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 2:07 PM, John R. Sowden
<jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> 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
>
> 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".

Please bottom-post.

These are open source kernel drivers for Chrome OS / Chromium OS:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os