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Software Updater wants to update Samba

apt list says that Samba is not installed.

$ apt list --installed samba
samba: Installed: (none) 
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Why does Software Updater want to install a package that is not installed?

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All credit to Charles Green for this answer

Although I do not have Samba explicitly installed, I have another package installed that includes Samba.

This can be demonstrated using

$ apt list --installed "*samba*"

Or

$ apt-cache rdepends samba | grep "  "|xargs apt list --installed

And there is a security update available for Samba, so Software Update wants to update Samba.

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