more user-friendly than Update manager?

[Mr Chris Aitken]

On 12-05-07 02:25 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> | From: Mr Chris Aitken<chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org>
>
> | On 12-04-30 03:10 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> |>  | From: Mr Chris Aitken<chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org>
> |>
> |>  | Is there a more user-friendly way to get updates than Update manager?
> |>  |
> |>  | I see hundreds of suggested updates for things like Evolution that I don't
> |>  | even use.
>
> |>  All those updates are for packages that you have installed.
> |
> | Hmmm. Interesting. I went to uninstall Evolution and it says it was never
> | installed...
>
> Yes, interesting!
>
> Are you sure that it is asking to update evolution?
>
> What does this command report:
> 	dpkg --list '*volution*'
>
> | chris at chris-HP-Compaq-dc5750-Small-Form-Factor:~$ sudo apt-get remove evolution
>
> | Package evolution is not installed, so not removed
>
> Odd.  Could you try the update-manager again and carfully not which
> packages with "volution" in their name that it wants to update?
>
> You could try:
> 	apt-get --just-print upgrade
> This would tell you which packages would be updated.  I would be
> interested in the output of that command up until the line that looks
> like:
> 	41 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

NOTE: This is only a simulation!
       apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
       Also keep in mind that locking is deactivated,
       so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages have been kept back:
   linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic software-center
The following packages will be upgraded:
   accountsservice acpid aisleriot alsa-utils app-install-data-partner
   appmenu-qt apport apport-gtk apt apt-transport-https apt-utils aptdaemon
   aptdaemon-data apturl apturl-common at-spi2-core bamfdaemon banshee
   banshee-extension-soundmenu banshee-extension-ubuntuonemusicstore baobab
   bind9-host binutils bluez bluez-alsa bluez-cups bluez-gstreamer brasero
   brasero-cdrkit brasero-common brltty bzip2 ca-certificates-java checkbox
   checkbox-gtk colord command-not-found command-not-found-data compiz
   compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins-default 
compiz-plugins-main-default
   cups cups-bsd cups-client cups-common cups-ppdc deja-dup 
desktop-file-utils
   dnsutils dpkg empathy empathy-common eog evince evince-common
   evolution-data-server evolution-data-server-common file-roller firefox
   firefox-globalmenu firefox-gnome-support firefox-locale-en
   flashplugin-installer gbrainy gcalctool gconf2 gconf2-common gedit
   gedit-common ghostscript ghostscript-cups ghostscript-x gir1.2-atspi-2.0
   gir1.2-gconf-2.0 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0
   gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 gir1.2-totem-1.0 gir1.2-unity-4.0 gir1.2-webkit-3.0
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   libv4l-0 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvorbisfile3 libwbclient0
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tzdata
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   ubuntuone-client-gnome ubuntuone-couch udev unity unity-2d 
unity-2d-launcher
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   update-notifier update-notifier-common upstart usbmuxd vinagre vino
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390 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.


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