"Update Manager" NOT Working On Mission Critical Machine?

[Jesse Palser]

On 05/16/2011 09:04 AM, Larry Vaden wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:49 AM, sktsee<sktseer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 May 2011 17:05:51 -0400, Jesse Palser wrote:
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm still concerned about my 11.04 OS's "Update Manager". Its been
>>> longer than I can remember since there was an update.
>> Update Manager is just a specialized front-end to apt. It uses the same
>> method (http by default) to update and synchronize the package lists as
>> apt-get does and uses the same package metadata storage.
> IMHO, those are design objectives which have not been accomplished
> completely and correctly.
>
> As a matter of fact, clicking on "Install Updates" is an effective
> no-op at times.
>
> regards/ldv
Never mind, I received some updates today.