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I have turned on my old laptop with Lubuntu 16.04.3 for the first time this month and wanted to install new updates. To my surprise, using the updater application or apt-get dist-upgrade, it wants to install a lot of new Gnome 3 related packages and I don't know why.

This my apt-get dist-upgrade output: https://pastebin.com/U5J4RcjR

This my apt-get upgrade output: https://pastebin.com/rmyweFV0

I don't have any PPA sources enabled. How can I fix this?

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  • lubuntu uses gnome packages so I do not see a problem. If you don't want them remove them, but take care, you might remove more than you bargained for.
    – Panther
    Nov 25, 2017 at 16:22

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Lubuntu is modified to automatically install pulseaudio, when the new (current) version of firefox is installed (firefox is upgraded to the new version, which needs pulseaudio for the audio system to work.

A side effect of this modification is that several new program packages are also installed, among them gnome program packages.

See this link to a post at the Ubuntu Forums (and some posts before and after that post),

Re: Firefox 52, PulseAudio, and Lubuntu 16.04 LTS - Just for the record apparently pulseaudio also installs the following packages as dependencies:

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