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I have been away for 4 months and when I started Ubuntu again there were 0 updates available. That seems very odd to me. I tried several times and always got that the same result: packages are all up to date. How can that be? Any suggestions?

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS - 64-bit - Gnome Version 3.36.8

$ sudo apt update
OK:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
OK:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease               
OK:3 https://deb.opera.com/opera-stable stable InRelease               
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig           
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.       
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
Alle Pakete sind aktuell.
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  • 22.04 is around the corner, 4 months with no update is definitely possible. Especially when you seem to have only very few repos enabled. I have security, updates, backports, main, universe in addition to what you have enabled.
    – emk2203
    Jan 23, 2022 at 10:46
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    Restore default repository, I kinda miss focal-updates and focal-security. gist.github.com/ishad0w/788555191c7037e249a439542c53e170
    – nobody
    Jan 23, 2022 at 13:56
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    Does this answer your question? How do I restore the default repositories?
    – Error404
    Jan 23, 2022 at 13:57
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    Your Ubuntu system did not delete the focal-updates and focal-security sources itself. Whatever reason you had for disabling/deleting those sources, it was unwise. Restore them, and don't do that again.
    – user535733
    Jan 23, 2022 at 15:38
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    Thanks emk2203, Mark, nobody, user535733 and specially Someone for the copy-past command line. The update works now and the sources are complete. I don't know how the sources got deleted or disabled, make me worried about the safety of my computer. How can I check if my system got compromised?
    – Patrick
    Jan 25, 2022 at 10:08

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There seems to be issues with the repositories. Check if your mirror is up to date. Then follow these steps:

  1. Open Software and Updates app.

    sudo software-properties-gtk
    
  2. As you want ALL the upgrades, I recommend enabling ALL the repositories:

    Enable all repositories.

  3. Then change the mirror to "Main Server".

  4. Update:

    sudo apt update 
    
  5. Then upgrade:

    sudo apt upgrade
    

Here is a one line copy-paste friendly command for the above steps:

sudo mkdir ~/answer && cd ~/answer/ && sudo wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ishad0w/788555191c7037e249a439542c53e170/raw/3822ba49241e6fd851ca1c1cbcc4d7e87382f484/sources.list && sudo sed -i "s/focal/$(lsb_release -c -s)/" ~/answer/sources.list && sudo mv ~/answer/sources.list /etc/apt/ && sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade  && sudo rm -rf ~/answer
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  • It indeed may well be that all repositories were turned off for one or another reason.
    – vanadium
    Jan 23, 2022 at 12:57

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