Software updater no longer functional

[Liam Proven]

On 27 January 2017 at 22:00, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> No errors, no conflicts, everything looks fine.
>
> I just noticed something different - when I click on the red circle,
> there is a greyed out message that says "A problem occurred when
> checking for the updates."  Then I click on "Show Updates" nad they
> show, but they don't update.  I have to use the command line to get
> the updates.


I've had that too. I regard it as a visual glitch and ignore it.

Have you tried an apt cleanup?

sudo apt clean
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt purge

... then reboot.

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