I should really stop running Ubuntu for the good of my health. This
morning, my various Ubuntu systems announced that a whole bunch of packages
would be unavailable unless I registered for Ubuntu Pro —
https://ubuntu.com/pro
Ubuntu Pro is free-of-charge for "personal" users for up to five machines.
Otherwise, pay up. I didn't see rates listed: you have to contact Canonical
to find out. Whenever I see that, I expect an Oracle-style shakedown in the
absence of transparency.
The following packages seem to be under 'esmapps', only available through
Ubuntu Pro:
ansible imagemagick imagemagick-6-common imagemagick-6.q16
libimage-magick-perl libimage-magick-q16-perl libjs-jquery-ui
libmagick++-6-headers libmagick++-6.q16-8 libmagick++-6.q16-dev
libmagickcore-6-headers libmagickcore-6.q16-6 libmagick++-dev
libmagickwand-6-headers libmagickwand-6.q16-6 libmaven3-core-java
libopenexr25 libopenexr-dev libpython2.7-dbg libpython2.7-minimal
libpython2.7-stdlib python2.7 python2.7-dbg python2.7-minimal
Ubuntu Pro also seems to require snapd, my least favourite Canonical
'innovation'. On the system I have it blocked completely it tried and
failed to install, hopefully with no hilarious side-effects.
Anyone else experiencing this? I suppose I should've seen it coming with
all the little messages that Ubuntu had been peppering into my apt chatter
every day.
Yours in absurdity,
Stewart
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