Why am I being asked to update addons for packages I do not have installed?

[bonkers]

Synaptic is telling me I need to update chromium-codecs-ffmpeg when I do not have chromium browser installed? I clicked on the chromium-codecs-ffmpeg -> picked properties and -> installed filed and noticed that

/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/chromium-browser
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libffmpegsumo.so
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
/usr/share/doc/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/copyright
/usr/share/lintian/overrides/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra

Is listed, how is this possible? Can I remove this package?

[claydoh]

Do you have chrome installed? Chrome uses that package, possibly other things do. It is a codec pack.

You can uninstall the package, but just make note of what will also be removed, things that depend on this.

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[SteveRiley]

Most likely, you got this package when you installed the extra third party software for multimedia:



Selecting that installs kubuntu-restricted-extras, which in turn installs kubuntu-restricted-addons, which in turn installs the package you're asking about.

Observe:

steve@t520:~$ [B]apt-cache depends kubuntu-restricted-extras[/B]
kubuntu-restricted-extras
  Depends: kubuntu-restricted-addons
  Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  Recommends: unrar
  Recommends: lame
  Recommends: <libavcodec-extra-53>

steve@t520:~$ [B]apt-cache depends kubuntu-restricted-addons[/B]
kubuntu-restricted-addons
  Recommends: flashplugin-installer
  Recommends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
  Recommends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
  Recommends: gstreamer1.0-libav
  Recommends: libk3b6-extracodecs
  Recommends: libdvdread4
  Recommends: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
  Recommends: oxideqt-codecs-extra

[bonkers]

Most likely, you got this package when you installed the extra third party software for multimedia:



Selecting that installs kubuntu-restricted-extras, which in turn installs kubuntu-restricted-addons, which in turn installs the package you're asking about.

Observe:

steve@t520:~$ [B]apt-cache depends kubuntu-restricted-extras[/B]
kubuntu-restricted-extras
  Depends: kubuntu-restricted-addons
  Recommends: ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  Recommends: unrar
  Recommends: lame
  Recommends: <libavcodec-extra-53>

steve@t520:~$ [B]apt-cache depends kubuntu-restricted-addons[/B]
kubuntu-restricted-addons
  Recommends: flashplugin-installer
  Recommends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
  Recommends: gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad
  Recommends: gstreamer1.0-libav
  Recommends: libk3b6-extracodecs
  Recommends: libdvdread4
  Recommends: chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra
  Recommends: oxideqt-codecs-extra

Right on the money as usual, hats off to you and thank you both for answering my question. Yes the package was removed. I am thinking about installing Aurora from the PPA, any thoughts guys? Would it be installed next to FF and share the same directory or seperate install. As I recall, on Windows, it totally replaced FF but kept the directory and addons. Also I have the PPA added for FF-Trunk, the newest version and I read something about it being the last version, not sure where, any truth to this? Also should FF use all cores, because it seems to be using one core on my amd8350.

[SteveRiley]

I am thinking about installing Aurora from the PPA, any thoughts guys? Would it be installed next to FF and share the same directory or seperate install.

Not sure. Try it and let us know. Make a copy of your ~/.mozilla folder first, just to be safe.

Also should FF use all cores, because it seems to be using one core on my amd8350.

Probably better to ask this on a Firefox forum or consult Google.

[NickStone]

I am thinking about installing Aurora from the PPA, any thoughts guys? Would it be installed next to FF and share the same directory or seperate install.

If Aurora is the nightly build or alpha/beta version of Firefox then it should install alongside the "normal" version of Firefox.