apt get vs synaptic pacage monitor

Irving Leonard irving.lp at feestudiantes.cujae.edu.cu
Fri Jun 19 21:51:03 UTC 2009


> Just be aware that I've run across an issue with the jaunty
> "update-manager" that seems to be more of "update-sometimes-manager"
> whereby I:
>
> $ sudo apt-get update
>
>   No updates showup (yet I know they are there)
>
> So then I try the gui "update-manager" and click check
>
>   No updates showup (yet I know they are there)
>
> So then I go to Synaptic and double check; no updates listed. But then I
> click the 'Reload' button which supposedly does the same as 'sudo
> apt-get update' and what do you know: 33 updates show up. Did this on
> two machines today, both with the exact same results. No clue/time to
> figure out the issue (yet), but in these cases Synaptic won out.

Just for the record, the kde version (adept_updater) works, do the command 
line thing and it will pop up (kubuntu hardy)
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regards
irving




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