Today I received an update notification for three updates but update manager doesn't say what updates are they.
Does anyone have a clue what this is about? How am I to check what is to be updated?
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What does the terminal say? sudo apt-get upgrade– wojoxAug 12, 2013 at 14:18
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Few days back i got the same error, so i did upgrade from terminal ( sudo apt-get upgrade ).– QasimAug 12, 2013 at 17:16
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2Do we have a bug report for this? If not, someone should create one. I didn't think to capture a screen shot, but you have one here that would be good to include in a bug report.– EnterpriseAug 12, 2013 at 17:55
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1I just opened Bug #1211511 for this issue. I was able to grab a an apport log and a screenshot of the problem. Please confirm this bug if you are impacted by it: bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1211511– EnterpriseAug 12, 2013 at 21:12
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Could it be that the upgrade-able packages are libraries and other "system" packages, and therefore hidden? (this could be done to confuse the user less about the updated packages, (s)he would probably only care if "Firefox" is updated?)– LekensteynAug 13, 2013 at 20:50
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I was getting this problem after upgrading to 18.04. Preparatory to sudo apt-get upgrade as noted above, I did
sudo apt autoremove
That resolved the problem for me and 'revealed' what updates were available for download. Almost half-a-gig clogging up the works.
Don’t worry! I have been through this. To clarify that I did that in terminal with
sudo apt-get upgrade
and it listed the outputs. Only 3 upgrades will be there if I remember correctly.
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2Even if that solved the issue, it has to be reported as a bug. Help the whole community!– LucioAug 12, 2013 at 20:38
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Check for an orphaned update-manager process that may be causing the empty Software Updater window.
pgrep -fl update-manager
You can kill all update-manager processes with:
pkill -f update-manager
Run apt list --upgradable in the terminal to see a list of packages that can be upgraded.