[Bug 1878931] Re: ubuntu-software does not update apt software

[Florian W.]

How long should this process of phasing in updates take? update-manager
tells me I'm up to date on 20.04, but:

$ apt list --upgradable | wc -l

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
scripts.

49

It looks like I get all the focal-security updates through update-
manager though, since the list contains focal-updates packages only. I
know about that setting in the "Applications & Updates" tool
("Anwendungen & Aktualisierungen" in German, not sure about the English
name) where we can choose between notification / auto download / auto
install for security updates and other updates. However, that option is
set to "Sofort anzeigen" ("display immediately") for both security and
other updates.

Disclaimer: This Ubuntu install was installed from 12.10 install media
and has been updated since then, so my settings could be a bit off.
Also, I removed snapd and therefore I don't have any kind of ubuntu-
store or gnome-software installed, only synaptic and update-manager,
maybe that's causing the issue? However, it used to work fine in 19.10.

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Title:
  ubuntu-software does not update apt software

Status in snap-store:
  Incomplete
Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  ubuntu 20.04

  update-manager or ubuntu-software (snap-store) does not update all
  installed apps. I used synaptic for another reason and I found that
  there are plenty updates that didn't prompt on ubuntu-software or on
  update-manager. Today I tried again testing it and it the issue
  repeated..

  What I did:
  1. open update-manager and install every update it needs
  2. open ubuntu-software and check for update (in my case it doesn't have any extra update)
  3. open synaptic package manager and click refresh and then mark updates.
  4. click on apply and many updates are going to be installed (for example, eog, which is pre-installed)

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