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backups-f
September 19th, 2019, 10:19 AM
Hi

Ubunutu 18.04 keeps telling me there are 2 updates.

if i do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade it does not update these. It does update any available others. But this message keeps coming back every day.

i did the apt autoremove as suggested but it does not solve my issue. How can i detect which 2 packages need to be updated?

How to resolve?

Thank you for any input and your time


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howefield
September 19th, 2019, 10:28 AM
Try ...


sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

guiverc
September 19th, 2019, 10:36 AM
From `man apt-get`


upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently
installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and
upgraded; under no circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or
packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of
currently installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the
install status of another package will be left at their current version. An
update must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of
packages are available.

dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also
intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of packages;
apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to
upgrade the most important packages at the expense of less important ones if
necessary. The dist-upgrade command may therefore remove some packages. The
/etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of locations from which to retrieve
desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for
overriding the general settings for individual packages.



ie. `apt-get upgrade` has limits on what it can upgrade; dist-upgrade or full-upgrade (for `apt`) perform the upgrade fully as per Howefield's suggestion

backups-f
September 21st, 2019, 12:54 PM
Thank you! that fixed the issue !

Have a great day