dealing with unwanted updates

[firenice03]

No, chromium is not installed, as I stated previously. My husband is not rude enough to install software on my pc without asking me first.

@TT

Typically when using the  Updates and Software package (synaptic) prepackaged with Linux Lite you will not be prompted for updates to applications that are not installed or do not have components of that application installed..
If your being prompted to update there maybe something that was inadvertently installed, not maliciously by person or OS... You're running a separate additional package installer, as mentioned this is advised against. You have LL and Ubuntu applications trying to do the same, each is different. Similarly how its ill-advised to run multiple anti-virus programs in Windows..

As mentioned:
Confirm in Lite Software = that Chromium is not in the 'Remove' list or showing 'not installed' from the install list.
Confirm in in Lite Software = Chromium or component(s) are not installed
Finally check the Ubuntu Updater for the same - Chromium or component(s) are not installed

If you confirm that Chromium is not installed - perhaps post a screen-shot of the error/message?? There is instruction on the forums how to do this, but the short version -- take a screen-shot - upload to imgur.com - copy the BBC code into the forum reply..

Additionally you had mentioned needing to expand your disk? I've ran LL on a 30gb partition for a couple versions; the OS itself with applications doesn't use much space... My root..

Code:

dad@Linux-Thin:~$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7        28G   11G   16G  40% /

Wondering if you maybe feeling some ill effects from the Ubuntu Updater = packages being downloaded but not installed??

Good Luck and welcome!!