strange issue with 'install updates'

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18 May 2014 16:38, Gary J. Kirkpatrick <garyartista at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:40 PM, William Scott Lockwood III
> > <scott at guppylog.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On May 18, 2014 3:02 AM, "Gary J. Kirkpatrick" <garyartista at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Yikes! When I try to install updates on this 12.04.1 unit, error
> message
> >> > says:
> >> >
> >> > Requires installation of untrusted packages
> >> >
> >> > Under details:
> >> >
> >> > flashplugin-installer ok
> >> > libxfont1 libxml2 linux-firmware python-libxml2 tzdata tzdata-java
> >> > usb-creator-common usb-creator-gtk
> >> >
> >> > I'd just installed bootlog but now have removed it, same error
> message.
> >> > I rebooted just in case that would help.
> >> >
> >> > I installed the same update one at a time and got no error messages!
> >> >
> >> > Probably I will wait for the next update to see if it happens again
> and
> >> > then report a bug.
> >> >
> >> > Any thoughts?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > thanks
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > garyk
> >>
> >> Do you have any third party repos installed? This message is common if
> you
> >> haven't added their key to your keyring. It's also pretty harmless.
> Assuming
> >> you trust all the repos you have added, it's ok to just install the
> >> packages.
> > ...
> > thanks-  I'd like to figure out which one is causing the problem.  I was
> not
> > able to install the updates except one at a time.
>
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> The best thing I believe in this sort of situation is to update via
> the command line then any errors are clearly shown.  If you copy/paste
> them here then someone will likely help.  So close update manager and
> in a terminal run
> sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> If there are errors that you need to copy then ctrl+shift+c copies
> marked text in the terminal.
>
> Colin
>
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Ok will do that.  thanks
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