There is literally not a single useful comment here.
You have packages from outside the official main repo, in the universe repo.
You are using a stable Distribution so packages are frozen and need backported security updates.
You dont get them for the optional universe repos, but if you give them a bit of money (or afaik Ubuntu pro is even free for a few devices) then they will also support these 3rd party packages.
It is an optional service, they warn you that you use outdated packages, and offer a solution.
I dont use Ubuntu and Snaps are crap, but this is totally fine.
they should have included the security patches from the get-go
I dont know how Ubuntu does that stuff, but universe is community supported only. It is required for many normal packages, so yes you could say their service is not good enough but hey, its free Software.
If you dont pay a cent you have like nothing to complain
As someone who stopped using Ubuntu since 2016 due to Canonical’s bullshit, what’s this “Ubuntu Pro” nonsense? Is there some premium track or something? If so, that’s disgusting and I hate it.
How does signing up work? What do they ask in terms of your data (email, name, address, more)? I tried finding out myself but their website misbehaved for some reason.
It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure it’s just an email for the Ubuntu One account. Haven’t ever gotten any junk mail from them so I don’t even remember which email I signed up with lol
There’s also the herd mentality; i.e. peeps like to up vote something that has already been up voted and down vote something that has already been down voted. I was the first to up vote; with my vote it became +2 -7. So, since then, it has received 4 up votes and 6 down votes. Which is at least an improvement.
The point I wanted to make is that there’s more to it. I wouldn’t simply refer to it as symptom of toxicity and call it a day.
iirc it’s from ubuntu-advantage-tools - you can remove it, but it’s set as a dependent for something important (ubuntu-minimal?) which makes it really annoying. I don’t use ubuntu anymore so hopefully someone who knows more will stop by.
Man… At this point we really should actively be telling people to stay the hell away from Ubuntu. This is some M$Windows levels of sneaky and borderline malicious behavior.
Ah - that’s all I had to do to solve it on Ubuntu server 22.04. Maybe desktop is different, maybe 24.04 is different. You can try removing additional packages or following other instructions. I won’t post any links here, as I see different possible solutions and haven’t tried any other than the one above. Let us know what works.
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