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Daniel Kaplan
Asked: 2020-09-13 11:01:44 +0800 CST

Why do I get "X packages can be updated" no matter how often I run update?

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As a disclaimer I am barely familiar with Linux. I know enough to install my own server and the packages I needed. What I have is:

Distributor ID:   Ubuntu 
Description:      Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS 
Release:          18.04
Codename:         bionic

Everytime I log in my welcome screen is:

Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-117-generic x86_64)
 
* Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com  * Management:    
https://landscape.canonical.com  * Support:       
https://ubuntu.com/advantage
 
   System information as of Sat Sep 12 14:25:50 EDT 2020
 
   System load:  0.35                Processes:           167   Usage
 of /:   24.5% of 228.23GB   Users logged in:     0   Memory usage: 32%
 IP address for wls1: 192.168.0.12   Swap usage:   0%
 
  * Kubernetes 1.19 is out! Get it in one command with:
 
      sudo snap install microk8s --channel=1.19 --classic
 
    https://microk8s.io/ has docs and details.
 
  * Canonical Livepatch is enabled.
    - All available patches applied.
 
 3 packages can be updated.
 0 updates are security updates.

Running apt list --upgradeable returns:

base-files/bionic-updates 10.1ubuntu2.10 amd64 [upgradable from: 10.1ubuntu2.9] 
ubuntu-server/bionic-updates 1.417.5 amd64 [upgradable from: 1.417.4]

Other than three update shown above, I do get notified of other updates, and running sudo apt-get upgrade gets and installs all updates, except for the three shown below.

The two commands I use are sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get update

Can anyone tell me what is wrong, or more likely what it is that I am doing incorrectly?

Here are the results for sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get update:

server:~$ sudo apt-get update  
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease 
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease                 
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease               
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease           
 Reading package lists... Done
server:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade 
 Reading package lists... Done 
 Building dependency tree
 Reading state information... Done 
 Calculating upgrade... Done 
The following packages have been kept back:   
 base-files ubuntu-server 
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. 
server:~$
updates upgrade 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You want to first run:

    sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade

    and then if it doesn't update the packages, run the following command:

    sudo apt install base-files ubuntu-server

    If there is a problem, it will let you know what the problem is before installing. You will have the option to select Y or N.

    If there is no problem, you can select Y and then press ENTER.

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