muon software updater stopped working

[oldgeek]

After a successful upgrade to 13.10, I'm having my first real problem: the automatic updater stopped working. It appears in the bottom panel, and works up to the dowload part, where it stops after downloading 33%. It just freezes at that point, and the computer has to be restarted to get rid of it. Any suggestions?

[vinnywright]

use the command line until a update fixes it

I use

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

but you can use "upgrade" in place of "dist-upgrade" if you wish ,,,,

the difference is ............

update
update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their sources. The indexes of available packages are fetched from the
location(s) specified in /etc/apt/sources.list. For example, when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves and scans the
Packages.gz files, so that information about new and updated packages is available. An update should always be performed before an
upgrade or dist-upgrade. Please be aware that the overall progress meter will be incorrect as the size of the package files cannot be
known in advance.

upgrade
upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in
/etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no circumstances are
currently installed packages removed, or packages not already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently installed
packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install status of another package will be left at their current version. An update
must be performed first so that apt-get knows that new versions of packages are available.


dist-upgrade
dist-upgrade in addition to performing the function of upgrade, also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions of
packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the expense of
less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains a list of
locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding the general settings
for individual packages.

in short "dist-upgrade" will allow for removing/adding packages if a new ver. of something needs it.........."upgrade" dose not !!

VINNY

[oldgeek]

Vinny,
Thanks for the tip. It worked on today's update, as far as I can tell.