All apps not showing on Ubuntu 16.04's Software Center

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 3:00 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 August 2016 at 17:48, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 8:19 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 08/11/2016 02:28 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't think this was my problem. They look different enough that I
> >>>> know I
> >>>> was observing the problem in the new Gnome Ubuntu Software app.
> Before I
> >>>> posted here I did some googling.  I couldn't find my problem but other
> >>>> people were having problems with it.  A lot of them would come back
> and
> >>>> say
> >>>> their problem went away on it's own. I am guessing that a reboot fixed
> >>>> it
> >>>> for me.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> That does sound like a bug.  To prove it one would have to go through
> >>> the update again, which is a bit tricky.
> >>>
> >>> Colin
> >>>
> >
> >  On a slight tangent, after upgrading my systems from 14.04 Trusty to
> 16.04
> > Xenial, I have noticed that the updates indicator in the new Ubuntu
> Software
> > application doesn't mesh with the indicators in the old Software Updater
> > [which is launched using the command: update-manager
> >
> > I find that you can run the update-manager and it gives a lot of detail
> > about the updates, as it always has, but even after running it, the
> updates
> > indicator in Ubuntu Software. They may even be completely different
> updates
> > (the new application has so little information it's hard to tell).
> >
> > I have not yet seen an explanation of the differences between the new
> update
> > tool vs. the old. I suppose there's no way to view the software updates
> and
> > see the status in detail as you could using the old tool. When I think
> to, I
> > run both, but I can't tell what the new one is doing different, if
> anything.
>
> I rarely use the GUI so not exactly sure what you mean by view the
> software updates and see the status in detail, but possibly running,
> in a terminal
> sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
> will tell you what you want. I much prefer that way as I like to see
> exactly what is happening.
>
> Colin
>
>
The thing I like most about the update-manager command is it presents all
the updates AND the release notes for the updates in a convenient GUI. So I
can read through the notes and look for trouble and/or improvements based
upon the changes that have occurred.

Yes I know you can do THAT in the CLI, too; it seems to be installed by
default on a Debian Jessie VM I just set up.
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