Finding installed packages not supported by the Ubuntu team
You can use ubuntu-support-status
command
$ ubuntu-support-status --help Usage: ubuntu-support-status [options] Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --show-unsupported Show unsupported packages on this machine --show-supported Show supported packages on this machine --show-all Show all packages with their status --list Show all packages in a list
with corresponding argument --show-unsupported
.
Below is example from my 16.04.5 LTS system:
$ ubuntu-support-status --show-unsupported Support status summary of 'hostname': You have 94 packages (1.9%) supported until April 2021 (Community - 5y) You have 2668 packages (54.0%) supported until April 2021 (Canonical - 5y) You have 647 packages (13.1%) supported until April 2019 (Community - 3y) You have 79 packages (1.6%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded You have 1456 packages (29.4%) that are unsupported No longer downloadable: acroread acroread-bin:i386 cpp-4.4 cpp-4.5 cpp-4.6 ... Unsupported: abiword-plugin-grammar adequate aglfn alien android android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot ant ant-optional antiword apt-file ... y-ppa-manager yad zenmap
(I added the ...
to limit number of lines).
sudo apt install synaptic
Open Synaptic Package Manager. Go to "Origin" (bottom left).