On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 21:43 +0200, Charles IRONS wrote: > http://ubuntu.mirror.neology.co.za/ubuntu It's strange that removing the packages takes that long, but the issue isn't related to the removal. This mirror is unavailable, chose another mirror. https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-select-the-fastest-apt-mirror-on-ubuntu-linux