Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Bret Busby]

On 18/10/2017, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 October 2017 at 09:07, Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
>>
>> There is an aspect to the data that is shown in that response, and that is
>> that, when I previously, as posted in a message in this thread, ran the
>> command to purge the bad package, the response included reference to
>> packages that were redundant, and, that should be removed using a command
>> like
>> sudo apt auto-remove
>> which I sunsequently ran, and, when I ran that command, it recycled, and,
>> ran for about 20-30 minutes, removing (what I understand to be) redundant
>> kernels and packages, and, showing lines of text that resembled (if not
>> were) the lines of text in the above response, that related to redundant
>> kernel versions.
>
> Running autoremove (not auto-remove, detail is important) which
> removes old kernels, as yours has done, will cause the reboot request
> message, so the fact that you got that does not indicate that updates
> were installed behind your back.
>
> I suggest you reboot (if you have not already done so) and then wait
> longer to see whether you do get notified of updates rather than it
> automatically installing stuff.
>

I have now rebooted the computer, and will leave the updating stuff
for a few days and see what happens.

And, you are correct - in going back through the command line history,
the command that I did run, was
sudo apt autoremove.

And, that is the command that was included in the system response to
the purge command.


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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