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orschiro
Asked: 2016-06-04 01:57:54 +0800 CST

Why do I receive Software Update notifications if there are no updates available?

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I keep receiving the following notification about new updates:

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If I then run the Software Updater, however, I don't receive any of these updates on Ubuntu 16.04.

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Does someone have the same problem?

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3 Answers

  1. If you run the new 'Ubuntu Software' application (same icon as the old 'Ubuntu Software Centre', i.e. a capital 'A') the you will see the updates. I'm not sure why 'Software Updater' (icon is a circle with arrows) is out of sync but it is. I asked a related question here

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  2. Best Answer

    The extra and outdated notification messages are a bug. This has been fixed in development and the update will be released for Ubuntu 16.04 soon, probably later this month (June 2016).

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  3. It is possible that there is a distro update. Try running sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade. Dist upgrades are different than the usual software upgrades so ubuntu may have a problem with it. 16.04 is still new and they changed their software store.

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