apt get vs synaptic pacage monitor

[Rashkae]

NoOp wrote:


> 
> Just be aware that I've run across an issue with the jaunty
> "update-manager" that seems to be more of "update-sometimes-manager"
> whereby I:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get update
> 
>   No updates showup (yet I know they are there)
> 
> So then I try the gui "update-manager" and click check
> 
>   No updates showup (yet I know they are there)
> 
> So then I go to Synaptic and double check; no updates listed. But then I
> click the 'Reload' button which supposedly does the same as 'sudo
> apt-get update' and what do you know: 33 updates show up. Did this on
> two machines today, both with the exact same results. No clue/time to
> figure out the issue (yet), but in these cases Synaptic won out.
> 
> 
> 


That's a very interesting observation, and should be impossible.  How
often do you check for updates?  I'm wondering generic repo address was
directing you to a mirror that wasn't finished updating yet?