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today I noticed a strange thing on my box running 12.04LTS. After some problems with Unity (specifically disappearing windows), I found out that something isn't right.

Since I have no idea what this could be, I will paste some stuff below. I believe that my Unity doesn't get updated at all.

dpkg -l |grep unity

ii unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1

(this looks fine)

aptitude show unity

State: not installed

Automatically installed: no

(this doesnt look alright?)

apt-get download unity

unity_5.10.0-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb

(this one neither)

Does anyone have some clues about whats going on here? On other boxes everything looks normal. The lastest version appears there.

Thanks for any hints in the right direction!

BTW: This is a clean install of 12.04, no dist-upgrade from an older version...Dependencies are fine too. dpkg-reconfigure without problems.

Greetings

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For some reason my "Hello everyone" got removed in that post. So here it is ;-) – ultrix Aug 6 '12 at 19:48
I don't know what's wrong but here are some intermediate things to look at. You could check /etc/apt/sources.list for a line like deb us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-updates main restricted? If you run apt-get upate does it download precise-updates/main arch packages, at least on occasion? After you cd /var/lib/apt/lists/ what's the output of ls -l *updates_main_binary*` ? If you do less *updates_main_binary* and search for "Package: unity" what release do you see? – John S Gruber Aug 7 '12 at 3:42
sources.list is fine. Here is the output you asked for: http://pastebin.com/dCpyk6j3 – ultrix Aug 7 '12 at 7:22

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