Two identical laptops with Ubuntu 14.04 (i386), but one fails to update...

[Colin Law]

On 31 August 2015 at 20:31, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> I manage two identicatial notebooks, both have Ubuntu 14.04 (i386) installed,
> but one is not picking up updates.  I run 'apt-get update;apt-get
> dist-upgrade' on it and it juts updates google-chrome, but nothing else.
> There are no errors.  The other one does its updates properly.  What should I
> be looking for?  Nothing *seems* to be wrong in /etc/apt as far as I can tell.

First check in Software Sources that the same sources are checked in
Ubuntu Software and Other Software (or something similar, can't
remember the exact titles).

If they are the same then identify a package that has updated in one
and not the other.  Then on each machine, in a terminal, run
apt-cache policy the_package
post the results for each machine here.

Colin