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When I upgraded my ubuntu 18.04 system today, I got to my surprise: ----------------------------------------------- goran at M6800:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: littler r-cran-littler r-cran-pkgkitten Use

On 1 August 2018 at 10:08, G?ran Brostr?m wrote: | When I upgraded my ubuntu 18.04 system today, I got to my surprise: | | ----------------------------------------------- | goran at M6800:~$ sudo apt upgrade | Reading package lists... Done | Building dependency tree | Reading state information... Done | Calculating upgrade... Done | The following packages were automatically installed and are no

G?ran, Got it now (thanks to a slower/later than usual commute) -- see 'man apt' which has autoremove (apt-get(8)) autoremove is used to remove packages that were automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are now no longer needed as dependencies changed or the package(s) needing them were removed in the meantime.

Here is an askubuntu post on complete disabling autoremove if you want that: https://askubuntu.com/questions/555568/how-can-i-disable-apt-get-autoremove Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org