On Thursday, 11 May 2017 11:04:40 BST PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
> On 30/04/17 13:06, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote:
> > On 19/04/17 10:16, Terry Coles wrote:
> >> My copy of Kubuntu 16.10 (and earlier versions) has always had an
> >> issue with the graphical update tool (it never notices that there are
> >> any). This is a known bug which the Kubuntu team seem unable to fix (they
> >> did once then changed the updater and broke it again).
> Hi Terry, did you ever get this working? On the 'new' home K16.04
> computer I never seem to get any notice of updates. Muon was not
> installed as part of the package, it had 'discover'. After I did an
> 'sudo apt-get update' which failed because of some skype repository
> problem, I had the little Update Icon on the taskbar. I was wondering if
> these were related- the fact that I stimulated it, and then it noticed?
You won't on 16.04, because, as mentioned above, the bug was there for years
before that version was released. If you visit the Kubuntu Forums, you'll find
a very long bug report which reflects the mounting frustration by the users as
the Kubuntu team 'mended' the updater, only to break it again. My name
appears more than once.
It started with notice of updates arriving normally; flagging up 1 to many
updates available. At that stage the updater couldn't count and the actual
number was always different, including no updates at all. This was flagged as
a bug.
Next they fixed that, but the updater stopped telling us about new updates.
Then finally, in 16.10, they would tell us occasionally, but then deny all
knowledge of the updates when the tool was run, even though they were there.
> At the moment I can't seem to find the settings for when I want updates.
> There is no menu item for it as on this machine. Both computers are
> Kubuntu 16.04.
The only fix that I'm aware of is to upgrade to 17.01. Updating is now handled
by the 'Discover' Software Centre which still has no useful settings.
At least it works, although I use only use it for updates. I use Synaptic for
installing new software because it has a far better search capability and
lists every package, not just the ones that Canonical think you should know
about.
(What this means that it doesn't list any libraries and only some command line
tools. You can find them if you know what they are called and search for them,
but even that is broken. If you try to search for 'bash', it will immediately
leap to packages beginning with 'b' and then only find it if it is in the
subset that it has listed.)
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