"Update Manager" NOT Working On Mission Critical Machine?

[Larry Vaden]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:49 AM, sktsee <sktseer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2011 17:05:51 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote:
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> [snip]
>
>
>> 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.

IMHO, those are design objectives which have not been accomplished
completely and correctly.

As a matter of fact, clicking on "Install Updates" is an effective
no-op at times.

regards/ldv
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