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pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

Posts: 214  

New packages automatically installed?

Today I ran apt upgrade on a Chimaera system that I am still using and this was the output:

# apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libc++1-16 libc++abi1-16 libunwind-16
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
2 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 768 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Notice that apt wants to install new packages. I've seen this before, and it always struck me as being a bit unusual. I thought that automatic installation of new packages is only supposed to occur if one is using testing or unstable. Does anyone have an explanation for why this is happening?

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golinux

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Re: New packages automatically installed?

Are you trying to update Chimaera or upgrade to Daedalus? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something . . . wouldn't be the first time.

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pcalvert

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Registered: 2017-05-15

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Re: New packages automatically installed?

Are you trying to update Chimaera or upgrade to Daedalus?

Update Chimaera (i.e., normal, regular maintenance).

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ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: New packages automatically installed?

Apparently your system has older versions those packages, and your command asks for upgrading anything upgradable. You might try

$ apt-cache policy libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37

to get more information before accepting... or maybe that's too late now?