update manager icon malfunctioning?

[stepfen]

Hello there,

I am trying LMDE for few weeks now and I noticed a strange behavior of the update manager icon on the bottom panel.

It shows the system as being “up to date,” constantly, even after I manually refresh it (right click on the icon and refresh) while I know there are available updates.

Apt-get finds and installs the updates from the command line ( when I run apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade).

In addition however, apt-get would occasionally keep back some packages from upgrading. Following this, if I manually refresh the update manager (right click and refresh on the icon) the update manager picks the kept back packages as available updates and offers me to install them!! A couple of minutes earlier - before updating/upgrading with apt-get - update manager would insist that my system was up to date even if I manually refreshed it... !

Any idea what causes this strange behavior??

Thanks a lot...

[Gerd50]

Hello stepfen,

what you are talking about is a well known problem with the update manager. The best thing you can do with it is,
delete and forget it, instead of breaking you your head over it

[stepfen]

Thanks to let me know....

I forgot that LMDE or Ubuntu, I am still in linux

[AlbertP]

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apt clean

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apt install -f

If you've cleaned up APT, it may work again.

[stepfen]

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apt clean

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apt install -f

If you've cleaned up APT, it may work again.

Even after cleaning up APT I noticed that refreshing from the update manager icon takes only few seconds, while "apt-get update" takes about 30 seconds to download all the info from the repositories...

Seems like right click refresh works only after apt-get has manually been updated from the command line (apt-get update)

Thanks anyway