After talking about this with some people I found out they had newer versions of the software I had but, at that time, I had no updates for my system. A day later those updates did show up and I was able to get the fix that I needed to solve a problem.
So I was wondering if I could find out with a command or at a website if the repositories I use are indeed up to date and/or how long it will take for it to be up to date.
Here is a great list of servers status and other useful information.
But if you go to
System -> administartion -> update manager -> Ubuntu software
and then selectother
in "download from". then you can selectselect best server
.This gives you the server that is the fastest and up-to-date.