Question about Ubuntu support

[Tony Arnold]

On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 17:03 +0100, Grizzly via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 31 May 2020  at 13:33, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Re: Question about Ubuntu support (at least in part)
> 
> > My system shows 449 packages that are no longer available for
> > download!
> 
> "Maybe" they were installed from a PPA that you removed, when using
> PPA's I 
> tend to (via Script) :-
> 
> sudo apt-add-repository xxxx.PPA
> sudo apt update 
> sudo apt install xxxx
> sudo apt-add-repository --remove xxxx.PPA  
> 
> > Is it safe to remove/purge these? I'm assuming it is but ...
> 
> The question is do you want them (or some)?

I don't recognise most of them, so I think the answer to that is no!

If they are left over from a PPA, then I've clearly removed the PPA at
some point so I don't need/want the packages from it.

If they are no long available from the official repositories, then
they've been replaced by something else or just no longer needed.

I concluded I could delete them and I have with no apparent ill
effects.

Thanks for your comments though.

Regards,
Tony.
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Tony Arnold MBCS, CITP | Senior IT Security Analyst | Directorate of IT Services | G64, Kilburn Building | The University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | T: +44 161 275 6093 | M: +44 773 330 0039
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