Unwanted Updates

This is similar to my earlier thread re: Firefox. I uninstalled it, as I prefer Vivaldi. But I still get hit with updates (language packs) daily. Similarly, I am now using a different Office suite, but I'm getting updates for Libre Office (also language packs). I could uninstall it also, but I fear the updates will keep coming.

I can't see any way of disabling the updates. They don't make any sense as in the case of Firefox I don't even have it installed, and I'm not using Libre (although I plan to keep it as it has more apps than the other office suite). Although I would not hesitate to uninstall it, if that would stop the updates. But I fear they will come anyway.

Is there any way out of this minor daily annoyance?

Not at my machine right now. Will look tomorrow.

Hi mdiener, the process will be exactly the same as for Firefox:

Help files to remove:

Language Packs to remove:

Dictionary and Thesaurus and hyphen rules files:

Open Synaptic Package Manager, right-click the green box with the stars in and select, 'Mark for Removal' then click on 'Apply' from the Menu bar.

You will also be interested to do the same for GNOME Language Packs - open Synaptic Package Manager and search for 'language-pack' - and remove all of the ones not needed. Remember to reboot after removal.

Thanks, swarf. And thanks to mdiemer for asking the question. I forgot about these until now. Will go and get them out of my machine too.

Yeah that seems to have done the trick, thanks again Swarf The Amazing.

Oops, I spoke too soon. They are all back, Firefox language packs, gnome and libre as well. I was not able to bring up in Synaptic everything you indicated, only the Firefox stuff, but the first couple times I rebooted I had no updates so I thought all was well. Now they are all back. At this point I'm ready to uninstall Synaptic, although I doubt that would help.

Hi mdiener, Your updates are definitely set to 'Main Server'?

Had no issue with Firefox language packs since I removed the ones other than EN-GB - same for all the others.

I tried this out just - cuz.

I failed, utterly.

I don't have any of that stuff. At all. Nothing to uninstall.

Then, I remembered that I use Waterfox instead of Firefox.

I tried this out just - cuz.

I failed, utterly.

I don't have any of that stuff. At all. Nothing to uninstall.

Then, I remembered that I use Waterfox instead of Firefox.

What about Gnome language packs? Libre Office Help, Language, Dictionary, Thesaurus, hyphen language packs?

I tried this out just - cuz.

I failed, utterly.

I don't have any of that stuff. At all. Nothing to uninstall.

Then, I remembered that I use Waterfox instead of Firefox.

What about Gnome language packs? Libre Office Help, Language, Dictionary, Thesaurus, hyphen language packs?

Gnome language packs- One entry for Gnome-Language-Selector
Libre Office Help - one entry for libroffice-help-en-us
Dictionary - aspell-en, cracklib runtime, hunspell-en-us, liblouis-data (braille) and libgdm3
Thesaurus- libmythes, mythes-us
hyphen language packs- Nothing.

So, not a whole lot there for those.

If I could just interpret your Azenis theme!

If I could just interpret your Azenis theme!

Is my big huge "Software Updater" icon killing ya?
I know how to fix that- I just don't want to. I like the big huge icon effect, sometimes.
I bet the image looks better for you since mine has the actual screen covered in swatted flies, sneeze-juice, and pizza debris.
You may note the W-i-d-e title bar buttons. Not so close together, makes it easier to hit your target when you want to Minimize, Maximize or Close. I added glow effects to the buttons on mine, but I have not updated the download page for them. Maybe I will get around to doing that...
Got rid of Cairo -dock and went another way with the panel. Off topic... anyway.... Given that list of what I found on searching, am I a dirty, dirty boy or all kinds of squeaky clean?
I Still think using Waterfox makes a big difference.





I was kidding about swatted flies, sneezes and pizza bits. I Hate a dirty screen.

This problem may have been fixed, as the last few updates have had no language pack updates for Firefox in them. If so, thanks to the Zorin team. I reset my update settings to default. We'll see what happens.

I spoke too soon. They weren't showing up because I had changed the settings for updates. The bogus language packs are now showing up again. I have to set it to notify me only weekly or bi-weekly. That seems to be the only way to stop the daily notifications, which are a problem, because they cause my Cantata music player to crash when they appear, necessitating a trip downstairs to the basement, to reset it.

Well, I may have solved it, finally. I searched for the offending updates in Synaptic, this time trying different search filters. I found them under the "up-gradable" filter. I marked them all for removal, and next time I ran the software updater, they did not appear. I have rest my settings to check for updates weekly, but to display security updates immediately.