Two identical laptops with Ubuntu 14.04 (i386), but one fails to update...

[Colin Law]

On 31 August 2015 at 20:44, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 August 2015 at 20:31, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>> I manage two identicatial notebooks, both have Ubuntu 14.04 (i386) installed,
>> but one is not picking up updates.  I run 'apt-get update;apt-get
>> dist-upgrade' on it and it juts updates google-chrome, but nothing else.
>> There are no errors.  The other one does its updates properly.  What should I
>> be looking for?  Nothing *seems* to be wrong in /etc/apt as far as I can tell.
>
> First check in Software Sources that the same sources are checked in
> Ubuntu Software and Other Software (or something similar, can't
> remember the exact titles).
>
> If they are the same then identify a package that has updated in one
> and not the other.  Then on each machine, in a terminal, run
> apt-cache policy the_package
> post the results for each machine here.

Before this, though run
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I notice you specified ; rather than && which means that it will run
the dist-upgrade even if the update fails, perhaps the update is
failing but you have not noticed.

Colin

>
> Colin