[SOLVED] Python being suggested for autoremove

[chimak111]

I downloaded 19.10 from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/19.10/beta/ and verified the md5sum.

I then chose the minimal install in qemu/kvm and restarted. On running sudo apt update followed by sudo apt full-upgrade I saw this:

$ sudo apt full-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:
fonts-font-awesome fonts-liberation2 freerdp2-x11 libabw-0.1-1 libadplug-2.2.1-0v5 libaio1 libaudiofile1 libbinio1v5
libboost-date-time1.67.0 libboost-filesystem1.67.0 libboost-iostreams1.67.0 libboost-locale1.67.0 libboost-system1.67.0
libboost-thread1.67.0 libcdio-cdda2 libcdio-paranoia2 libcdr-0.1-1 libclucene-contribs1v5 libclucene-core1v5 libcmis-0.5-5v5 libcolamd2
libe-book-0.1-1 libebur128-1 libeot0 libepubgen-0.1-1 libetonyek-0.1-1 libexttextcat-2.0-0 libexttextcat-data libfluidsynth1
libfreecell-solver0 libfreehand-0.1-1 libfreerdp-client2-2 libfreerdp2-2 libgrantlee-textdocument5 libharfbuzz-icu0 libid3tag0
libjs-sphinxdoc libkf5plotting5 libkf5torrent6 libkf5webkit5 libkgantt2 libkgantt2-l10n libkolabxml1v5 libktorrent-l10n liblangtag-common
liblangtag1 libmhash2 libmikmod3 libmms0 libmodplug1 libmpdclient2 libmspub-0.1-1 libmwaw-0.3-3 libmythes-1.2-0 libodfgen-0.1-1
libopenal-data libopenal1 liborcus-0.14-0 libpagemaker-0.0-0 libphonenumber7 libprotobuf17 libpython-stdlib libpython2-stdlib
libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libqgpgme7 libqt5networkauth5 libraptor2-0 librasqal3 librdf0 libreadline5 librevenge-0.0-0
libsdl2-2.0-0 libsidplayfp4 libsuitesparseconfig5 libvisio-0.1-1 libvncclient1 libwildmidi2 libwinpr2-2 libwpd-0.10-10 libwpg-0.3-3
libwps-0.4-4 libxerces-c3.2 libxmlsec1 libxmlsec1-nss libyajl2 libzzip-0-13 lp-solve mariadb-client-core-10.3 mariadb-common
mariadb-server-core-10.3 paperkey python python-minimal python2 python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal qtgstreamer-plugins-qt5
timgm6mb-soundfont
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
bolt libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libgnutls30 libidn2-0 libnss-systemd libpam-systemd
libsdl-image1.2 libsystemd0 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libtiff5 systemd systemd-sysv
18 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,301 kB of archives.

Is the suggested removal of "python" okay? I accepted the upgrades but haven't run the autoremove command.

[Don B. Cilly]

Try
ll /usr/bin/python

Maybe it links to a different/newer one.
Here (neon unstable, 18.04) I have

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 27 18:19 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7*

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 27 18:19 /usr/bin/python3 -> python3.6*

[chimak111]

You're right!

$ ll /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 28 13:45 /usr/bin/python -> python2*
$

Edit: so I ran sudo apt autoremove and rebooted. Nothing exploded.

[Don B. Cilly]

Good. One thing, if you use the CLI to update (I do too), why not use an alias?

[chimak111]

Good. One thing, if you use the CLI to update (I do too), why not use an alias?

I do too!
Not just for update/full-upgrade …

alias acsh='apt show'
alias acse='apt search'
alias acpo='apt policy'
alias acde='apt depends --no-pre-depends --no-recommends --no-suggests --no-conflicts --no-breaks --no-replaces --no-enhances '
alias acrd='apt rdepends'
alias apli='apt list --installed | grep -i'
alias sain='sudo apt install'
alias sapu='sudo apt purge'
alias saau='sudo apt autoremove'
alias sacl='sudo apt clean'

(The "c" in some of the aliases is a vestige of the apt cache days.)

[WonkoTheSaneUK]

IIRC, Python <3.0 is now depracated.

[chimak111]

IIRC, Python <3.0 is now depracated.

It's a work in progress

Some applications, GIMP comes to mind, may still use Python 2 even in 19.10.

See https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/gimp-python.