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No update in 6-8 weeks? (solved)

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Hi, I havent recieved any updates for quite a long time. It may be 2 months or so. Do you have the same experience? I have set safe and visible for levels 1-3.
Or maybe there are no updates because the team is working hard on Rafaela?
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I know there have been some level 3 updates recently.
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Do you get any errors when you run the following terminal command.

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sudo apt-get update
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cinnamoncoffee wrote:Hi, I havent recieved any updates for quite a long time. It may be 2 months or so. Do you have the same experience? I have set safe and visible for levels 1-3. …
This happened to me more than once. There seem to be some issues with the Update Manager, see https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/issues/98 :cry:
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Try > Open Mint Update (Update Manager) and click the "Refresh" button at the top... report back results...
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Re: No update in 6-8 weeks?

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I clicked refresh and mintupdate appeared. When I installed it, many other packages were shown and I installed them. This is strage. I hope this new version will check for updates automatically.
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cinnamoncoffee wrote:I clicked refresh and mintupdate appeared. When I installed it, many other packages were shown and I installed them. This is strage.
I'm glad everything worked out for you.
cinnamoncoffee wrote:I hope this new version will check for updates automatically.
If it doesn't, you know what to do... :mrgreen:

Just for fun, open the update manager and on the menu bar, click "Edit"... then select "Preferences" and then click the "Auto-Refresh" tab to see what is there. You might want to adjust the settings...
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Reorx wrote: Just for fun, open the update manager and on the menu bar, click "Edit"... then select "Preferences" and then click the "Auto-Refresh" tab to see what is there. You might want to adjust the settings...
I guess the value set is too high. The OP should lower it to 1hour or something like this. Except if checking the update automatically is not needed. A hand refresh can always be performed.
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killer de bug wrote:
Reorx wrote: Just for fun, open the update manager and on the menu bar, click "Edit"... then select "Preferences" and then click the "Auto-Refresh" tab to see what is there. You might want to adjust the settings...
I guess the value set is too high. The OP should lower it to 1hour or something like this. Except if checking the update automatically is not needed. A hand refresh can always be performed.
My 2 production machines (laptops) are running LM17C64. My auto refresh time is set at 30 minutes. I have never changed it so I assume this is the default. Having said that, whenever I update, I almost always do a "hand refresh" first... :mrgreen:
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Reorx wrote: My auto refresh time is set at 30 minutes. I have never changed it so I assume this is the default.
Yes, 30 min is the default. Here I assumed the OP has changed it and set it to something like 5/6 hours. If he/she closes his/her computer before this time is reached, no updates are proposed. My personal laptop is not running for 5 hours a day :mrgreen:
Reorx wrote:Having said that, whenever I update, I almost always do a "hand refresh" first... :mrgreen:
Me too. Just to be on the safe side :)
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Re: No update in 6-8 weeks? (solved)

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A workaround could be, to add a line to rc.local in order to make sure that refreshing always takes place, even when the interval is set to long periods:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... ew-updates
(item 2, left column)

That's how I have done it myself, anyway....
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Re: No update in 6-8 weeks? (solved)

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Oh, now i see what the problem was :)
I set autorefresh to 3 days. I didnt know that means that the computer has to be on the whole time. :mrgreen:
Its back to 30mins now :)
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cinnamoncoffee wrote:Oh, now i see what the problem was :)
I set autorefresh to 3 days. I didnt know that means that the computer has to be on the whole time. :mrgreen:
Cool! I knew I was right :mrgreen:
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killer de bug wrote:
cinnamoncoffee wrote:Oh, now i see what the problem was :)
I set autorefresh to 3 days. I didnt know that means that the computer has to be on the whole time. :mrgreen:
Cool! I knew I was right :mrgreen:
I suspected as much... :mrgreen:
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