Update problem

[gold_finger]

Coastie,

Scott(0) already answered that no install is necessary.  I'll just go through rest of your original post.

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  atomicparsley get-iplayer id3v2 libany-moose-perl libclass-load-perl
  libclass-method-modifiers-perl libclass-singleton-perl
  libcrypt-blowfish-perl libcrypt-rijndael-perl libdata-amf-perl
  libdata-optlist-perl libdatetime-locale-perl libdatetime-perl
  libdatetime-timezone-perl libhttp-server-simple-perl libid3-3.8.3c2a
  libio-socket-socks-perl liblist-moreutils-perl liblwp-protocol-socks-perl
  libmodule-implementation-perl libmodule-runtime-perl libmouse-perl
  libmp3-info-perl libpackage-stash-perl libpackage-stash-xs-perl
  libparams-classify-perl libparams-util-perl libparams-validate-perl
  libsub-install-perl libtie-ixhash-perl libtry-tiny-perl
  libunicode-string-perl libuniversal-require-perl libwww-mechanize-perl
  rtmpdump
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

Not sure what the above items above are. (Firefox and Thunderbird were updated.)

Above is just listing packages that are currently on the system but no longer needed.  They are not necessarily something that just happened during the update.  Some/most were probably installed as dependencies for programs that you later removed from the system.  They'll stay on the system unused unless you run that command to remove them.

I tried instruction and got the following:

coastie@coastie-desktop:~$ apt-get autoremove
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)

You ran the command and saw that you needed to run it as root.

coastie@coastie-desktop:~$ su  apt-get autoremove
No passwd entry for user 'apt-get'

Here you ran the su command instead of sudo; so system thought you were trying to switch to user named "apt-get" and reported back with

No passwd entry for user 'apt-get'

coastie@coastie-desktop:~$ linux
The program 'linux' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install user-mode-linux

Not sure what you were doing here, so just going to ignore it.


To get rid of packages that are no longer needed, just run the above command like this:

Code:

sudo apt-get autoremove