[GTALUG] Ubuntu updates

[William Park]

I thought it was just GUI frontend for command line stuffs.  Strange...
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William

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:58:39PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I'm annoyed at ubuntu's GUI Software Updates program.
> 
> Context: 14.04 LTS running on Acer Revo using proprietary nVidia drivers.
> 
> Normally I use apt-get update and upgrade to apply updates.  Today, right 
> after I did that, the GUI thing told me that there were pending updates.  
> So I told it to go ahead.
> 
> It proceeded to fail.  The Ubuntu crash reporter ground for a while (this 
> is a first-generation Atom processor) and then said the bug was known:
> 
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-331/+bug/1268257>
> 
> Look at how long that has been around.  Look at how many people
> (systems) are listed as affected.  Look how many duplicates of this
> bug are filed.
> 
> I don't want to waste the time investigating, but it is suspicious to
> me that apt-get had no problem.
> 
> I remain quite skeptical of Unbuntu's and Fedora's GUI software
> updaters.
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