System Update froze - UbuntuMATE 16-04

[Sarunas Burdulis]

On 2018-06-19 14:41, Bret Busby wrote:
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> Also, ...
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> "
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# apt-get --purge remove
> snapd unattended-upgrades
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
>   squashfs-tools
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   snapd* ubuntu-mate-core* ubuntu-mate-desktop* unattended-upgrades*
> 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 4 to remove and 34 not to upgrade.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 80.2 MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# apt-get --purge remove
> unattended-upgrades
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   ubuntu-mate-core* ubuntu-mate-desktop* unattended-upgrades*
> 0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 3 to remove and 34 not to upgrade.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 348 kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> Abort.
> root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret#
> "
> 
> So, to remove unattended-upgrades, requires removing ubuntu-mate .

Quite likely, those are metapackages, i.e. contain nothing, but
references to other packages. Once you have a successfully completed
upgrade, you may check what they are:

apt-cache show ubuntu-mate

for example.

If you'd rather not remove them, those “services” can still be disabled:

systemctl disable snapd.service
systemctl mask snapd.service
systemctl disable unattended-upgrades.service
systemctl mask unattended-upgrades.service

-- 
Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator, Dartmouth Mathematics
math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas

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