Gettings Updates for Software That Are Not Installed

[toady2]

I keep getting updates for firefox even though I don't have it installed. One of the recent updates I received was a language pack. I received more in the past, but I don't remember what they were sorry. Can someone explain why I get updates for a software that is not installed? Thank

*EDIT*
Sorry I forgot to mention that i'm using Lubuntu.

[novice_penguin]

It sounds like the program files were not "purged" correctly.

[UltimateCat]

Hi!

By default Ubuntu comes with the Firefox browser.

Also, your sources.list is where all of the updates operate from so that's why those updates are showing up-
On my system the sources list is in this path /etc/apt/sources list
If you want to view your sources list to see all the repositories you can use the terminal and run:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

The http:// address's that are in your sources list is where the updates come from.
You can either remove that line in your sources list (the one with the Mozilla address) or you can just comment out that entire argument with the (#) in
front of the exact line it's self.

But to edit your sources list you will have to use Nano, Gedit or whatever your favorite text editor is.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SourcesList
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...es/CommandLine

https://projects.gnome.org/gedit/
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/42980...e-text-editor/

HTH
Ultimatecat

[Impavidus]

Maybe you uninstalled firefox, but kept its dependendies. Running

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

may work.

[ian-weisser]

I keep getting updates for firefox even though I don't have it installed.

You probably do have some element of Firefox installed.
Uninstalled packages do not receive updates.

How, exactly, did you remove Firefox?

Please open a terminal, try the following command, and post the complete output (including error messages) here:

sudo apt-get autoremove firefox

[sandyd]

I keep getting updates for firefox even though I don't have it installed. One of the recent updates I received was a language pack. I received more in the past, but I don't remember what they were sorry. Can someone explain why I get updates for a software that is not installed? Thank

If you are talking about language-pack-en/base pulling in the firefox-locale-en dependency, it is not the full firefox - just the firefox english locales

[vasa1]

Run sudo apt-get purge firefox-locale-en

[toady2]

I actually never installed firefox. I never installed any browser. I am using Lubuntu so I'm just using chromium, as that came already installed.

[ian-weisser]

The firefox-locale-en package is Recommended by language-pack-en-base, which is included in Lubuntu.
You can safely remove it if you wish. Be aware that the package manager may (helpfully) reinstall it for you in the future.

$ apt-cache rdepends firefox-locale-en
firefox-locale-en
Reverse Depends:
  firefox-testsuite
  language-pack-en-base


$ apt-cache show language-pack-en-base
[...]
Recommends: firefox-locale-en
[...]
Description-en: translations for language English
 Translation data for all supported packages for:
 English
 .
 This package provides the bulk of translation data and is updated
 only seldom. language-pack-en provides frequent
 translation updates, so you should install this as well.
[...]
Task: ubuntu-live, ubuntu-usb-live, kubuntu-live, kubuntu-active-live, kubuntu-active-live, edubuntu-live, edubuntu-dvd-live, edubuntu-usb-live, xubuntu-live, lubuntu-live, ubuntustudio-dvd-live

[vasa1]

I actually never installed firefox. I never installed any browser. I am using Lubuntu so I'm just using chromium, as that came already installed.

Same here. IMO, it's just a hangover from most other Ubuntu Flavors having Firefox as the default. The Lubuntu devs perhaps forgot to address this issue which otherwise is normally taken care of during installation and cleanup.
No big deal. Just delete it.

If you want more, assuming you've done a clean install of Lubuntu 13.04 ... I don't know what happens with an "upgrade".

Go to /var/log/apt. Copy the oldest history.log.n.gz you see (where n is an integer) to your desktop, uncompress it, open the log with Leafpad and search for "firefox-locale-en". You'll see that the installation process installs it but doesn't purge it later on when several other things, including other locales for Firefox are purged.