ok.. PROGRESS! I know what the problem is... although I dont know why...
prior to trying to install updates i got this:
++ Starting refresh
++ Connection to the Internet successful (tried to read
http://www.google.com)
++ Successfully downloaded new safety rules using proxy: None
++ Found 4 recommended software updates
++ Refresh finished
i open the main package manager window, click "install upadtes" window disappears and then this:
++ Install requested by user
++ Will install libncurses5
++ Will install ncurses-base
++ Will install libncursesw5
++ Will install ncurses-bin
++ Ready to launch synaptic
mcdowall is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
++ Return code:1
++ Install finished
++ Starting refresh
++ Connection to the Internet successful (tried to read
http://www.google.com)
++ Successfully downloaded new safety rules using proxy: None
++ Found 4 recommended software updates
++ Refresh finished
I did edit the sudoers file using sudo visudo and I tried to add myself... although to be honest I was never sure I was doing it right... so I just deleted the lines I had added
obviously update manager had been working prior to the above editing attempts
this is what my current sudoers file looks like
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# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
#
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
so any ideas as to how I can get update manager behaving again?
ie working whether I am in sudoers or not