Question 2 of 3: Ubuntu - apt-get and Update Manager

[Karl Larsen]

On 07/21/2010 10:50 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Does anyone know, please, why apt-get and the Update Manager behave in
> "different ways"?
>
> By this I mean: I used apt-get update/upgrade and I had upgrades
> installed; I then followed this up with the Update Manager "just for
> kicks" and found that it picked up more apps to be upgraded - and I
> don't mean just one or two but possibly 10. This was a while back and
> now I do this everyday - and it happens almost every time: apt-get does
> its job and then Update Manager finds more and all this within moments
> of apt-get finishing.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion why this occurs?
>
> BC
>
>    
             I just got an update using aptitude update/upgrade and got 
a fix for grub, 2 large files. I then fired up Update Manager and it did 
a few things and said no updates. So I do  not have your problem.

73 Karl


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