<html dir="ltr"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#737373" vlink="#2e3436"><div>Hi Tommy,</div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, 2020-05-30 at 17:25 -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 11:35 AM Little Girl <<a href="mailto:littlergirl@gmail.com">littlergirl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
>ubuntu-security-status --thirdparty is interesting <br>
<br>
I did the commands on a fresh installation of Kubuntu in a virtual<br>
machine, so that one didn't give me any results. I'd have to install<br>
some third-party software to see what it does. What kind of result<br>
does it give?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>my thirdparty is Google Chrome (which I keep around to test things when Chromium doesn't work for whatever reason):</div><div><br></div><div>user@hostname:~$ ubuntu-security-status<br>2794 packages installed, of which:<br>1939 receive package updates with LTS until 4/2025<br> 849 could receive security updates with ESM Apps until 4/2030<br> 1 package is from a third party<br> 5 packages are no longer available for download<br><br>Packages from third parties are not provided by the official Ubuntu<br>archive, for example packages from Personal Package Archives in<br>Launchpad.<br>For more information on the packages, run 'ubuntu-security-status<br>--thirdparty'.<br><br>Packages that are not available for download may be left over from a<br>previous release of Ubuntu, may have been installed directly from a<br>.deb file, or are from a source which has been disabled.<br>For more information on the packages, run 'ubuntu-security-status<br>--unavailable'.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>My system shows 449 packages that are no longer available for download!</div><div><br></div><div>Is it safe to remove/purge these? I'm assuming it is but ...</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Tony. </div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div>
</blockquote><div><span><pre>-- <br></pre><div><div><font size="2"><font color="#3366ff"><b>Tony Arnold</b> MBCS, CITP | Senior IT Security Analyst | Directorate of IT Services | G64, Kilburn Building | The University of Manchester | Manchester M13 9PL | </font><font color="#ff0000">T:</font><font color="#3366ff"> +44 161 275 6093 | </font><font color="#ff0000">M:</font><font color="#3366ff"> +44 773 330 0039</font></font></div></div></span></div></body></html>