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