Question about Ubuntu support

[Tony Arnold]

On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 13:33 +0000, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Hi Tommy,
> 
> On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 17:25 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> > On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:35 AM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> > > >ubuntu-security-status --thirdparty is interesting 
> > > 
> > > I did the commands on a fresh installation of Kubuntu in a
> > > virtual
> > > machine, so that one didn't give me any results. I'd have to
> > > install
> > > some third-party software to see what it does. What kind of
> > > result
> > > does it give?
> > 
> > my thirdparty is Google Chrome (which I keep around to test things
> > when Chromium doesn't work for whatever reason):
> > 
> > user at hostname:~$ ubuntu-security-status
> > 2794 packages installed, of which:
> > 1939 receive package updates with LTS until 4/2025
> >  849 could receive security updates with ESM Apps until 4/2030
> >    1 package is from a third party
> >    5 packages are no longer available for download
> > 
> > Packages from third parties are not provided by the official Ubuntu
> > archive, for example packages from Personal Package Archives in
> > Launchpad.
> > For more information on the packages, run 'ubuntu-security-status
> > --thirdparty'.
> > 
> > Packages that are not available for download may be left over from
> > a
> > previous release of Ubuntu, may have been installed directly from a
> > .deb file, or are from a source which has been disabled.
> > For more information on the packages, run 'ubuntu-security-status
> > --unavailable'.
> 
> My system shows 449 packages that are no longer available for
> download!
> 
> Is it safe to remove/purge these? I'm assuming it is but ...
> 

I've removed the unavailable packages. All seems to be OK.

Regards,
Tony.
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