"Update Manager" NOT Working On Mission Critical Machine?

[sktsee]

On Sun, 15 May 2011 17:05:51 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm still concerned about my 11.04 OS's "Update Manager". Its been
> longer than I can remember since there was an update.

Update Manager is just a specialized front-end to apt. It uses the same
method (http by default) to update and synchronize the package lists as
apt-get does and uses the same package metadata storage. Pressing the
"Check" button in Update-Manager and typing "sudo apt-get update" in a
terminal are functionally identical. If apt-get doesn't show any packages
that need updating, neither will Update-Manager.

However, if you wish to force an update to the package lists, then simply
remove them from /var/lib/apt/lists (not the directory, though, and back 
them up first) and then open Update-Manager and click the "Check" button 
to download them again.

or

Open Synaptic and press the Reload button


> I am also waiting for Wine 1.3.20 PPA to update on my computer. Wine
> 1.3.20 was announced over 2 days ago and I have not gotten the update
> yet?
> 
The current Wine version in the PPA is still at 1.3.19
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa?field.series_filter=natty


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