security update from Ubuntu

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Thanks for the explanation! Indeed it is installed:

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version                        Architecture Description
+++-================-==============================-============-=================================
ii  texlive-binaries 2019.20190605.51237-3ubuntu0.2 amd64        Binaries
for TeX Live

Is it possible to find out the dependency that installed it?

Paulo Ney



On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 5:26 PM Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
> > Hi! I woke up today to an offer from Ubuntu to do a security update on my
> > TeXLive binaries -- that I do NOT have installed on my machine. I only
> use
> > the TeXLive installation from TUG.
>
> You most probably DO have texlive-binaries installed, type
>         dpkg -l texlive-binaries
> and if the first two columns are
>         ii  texlive-binaries ...
> then it is installed, most probably via some dependency.
>
> > I am a bit afraid of clicking yes here and end up with a fresh new
> > installation of an old TeXLive. Does anyone here know how and why this
> got
> > triggered?
>
> No, the packages listed are only and some other small binary
> dependencies.
>
> Don't worry, either ignore or install, nothing bad should happen.
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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