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Oneiric Update manager configured without downloading 18 MB

Asked by Michael Iltis

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 (Oneiric) using automatic update manager.

The other day the first time I invoked the Oneiric update manager it wanted to download
18.7 MB of security and recommended updates, but when I told it to update, I was not particularly bothered that it did not ask for a password like it used to (since Oneiric now asks for the password when I start the session) but I was alarmed that it did not start downloading the 18.7 MB which in the past would have taken quite a while. Instead it proceeded immediately to configure and then said I was up to date even though it seemed to bypass the download of 18.7 MB completely. I am a bit alarmed since there were security updates etc. Did it somehow already have the downloaded material ? Does it now update based on changes only which allow it to bypass downloading 18.7 MB ? This seems odd since it told me it was going to download 18.7 MB which should have taken a while but the configure was almost instantaneous. If this is in error, how do I correct the problem? It now thinks it has updated when it appears to me that it did not. Should I burn an Oneiric CD and re-install Oneiric?

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Best Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said : 		#1

"Did it somehow already have the downloaded material ?"

It probably did. Ubuntu will download updates, especially security updates, in the background, if configured to do so. Oneiric is configured by default to download security updates in the background. It will not install them without asking you, unless you have configured it to do so (which is not the default configuration), but it will download them on its own.

If you feel unsure about whether or not updating is working properly, you could run the commands in step 4 of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PackageManagerTroubleshootingProcedure (do Step 2 first) and provide all the text from the Terminal here for inspection. I don't think you have any reason to need to be concerned, but I'd be please to look over that output if you like. That output will not provide hints of any possible problem (and of course I cannot promise I won't make a mistake and overlook something, nor can I be held liable if I do), but I'd be pleased to take a careful look at it if you wish.

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Michael Iltis (mgiltis) said : 		#2

As far as I know this explains my question. Thanks