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Updates on Software Center and Ubuntu Update Manager

Asked by Bruno Nova

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 (Unity).

Just now, I opened update-manager to check if there were any updates available. There weren't.
However, just before finishing, I received a desktop notification saying that there were updates available.
I opened Gnome Software Center and there were indeed system updates.
Clicking the update revealed 2 packages (with changelogs), "apt list --upgradable" revealed more, so I assume all the packages were grouped into just 2 (source packages?).

The questions (or possible bugs):
1. Is Gnome Software ignoring phased-updates? (they didn't show in update-manager)
2. With Gnome Software, are there now 2 update managers installed? Why?
   And why doesn't the notification inform the user how to install the updates?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

sudo apt-get update

Thanks

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Bruno Nova (brunonova) said : 		#2

Did you mean "update" or "upgrade"?

Output of "update" is just the usual one (loads of repositories).

"upgrade" currently tells me "ubuntu-core-launcher" is going to be updated, because I've already installed all updates yesterday.
Yesterday it listed several packages, while update-manager showed nothing, which is why I referenced phased-updates.

But do you really want me to paste the output of that command here?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Yes please. There is no limit here.

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Bruno Nova (brunonova) said : 		#4

OK, output of "LANG=en sudo apt-get update":

Hit:1 http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/brunonova/indicator-datetime/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/brunonova/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/noobslab/indicators/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ravefinity-project/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [92.2 kB]
Fetched 92.2 kB in 5s (16.2 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

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lol (0lesya) said : 		#5

I have the same problem with notifications about updates. Those in Software Center didn't appear in Update Manager at all. Took me some time to understand where to look for them...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#6

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