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

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:44:19 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.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).

/etc/apt/sources.list

They were different (I don't know how that happened).  I copied the 'good' on 
to the 'bad' machine and now it is updating properly.

> 
> 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.
> 
> Colin
> 

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