Software Updater broken on 16.04.x

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 2:59 AM Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> On one of my computers running UbuntuMATE 16.04.x, the Software
> Updater shows "Updated software is available for this computer. ..."
> and "323.1MB will be downloaded.".
>
> But, it now does not display a (selectable/deselectable) list of what
> packages are to be downloaded/updated/installed/removed/changed.
>
> This also occurs after the computer is rebooted.
>
> I am not aware of any setting to conceal what packages are to be changed.
>
> What is happening?
>

This sounds like Ubuntu bug 1766217

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1766217

I don't think it's been fixed yet, but if you read through you'll see a
pretty straightforward workaround -- deleting one file seems to restore the
list of updates.

Technically since you're using a different "downstream" distro so you may
want to file a bug wherever the MATE people keep track of bugs, and maybe
reference Ubuntu bug 1766217.
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