Menu System Tools/Software Updater not working after, Lubuntu upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 15:16:27 UTC 2018


On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 16:12, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 16:43 +0200, grasso wrote:
> > When I run update-manager in the terminal there is no window popping up.
>
> Hi,
>
> I doubt running a manager to update software without root privileges
> makes much sense, since sync of the package index files already requires
> root privileges. Try running
>
>   gksudo $(which update-manager)

Not necessary, it will ask for privileges if it needs them, at least
that is the situation for me.  Have you tried it?

Colin




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