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I have Ubuntu Lucid installed, need to update packages, when I ran 

 sudo apt-get update

I can see list of packages need to be updated, when I ran '

sudo apt-get upgrade  or sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

it said:

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

? how can I update that list of packages? I don't have a GUI interface only command line interface...

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  • Do those packages happen to be kernels and stuff like that?
    – Brōtsyorfuzthrāx
    Commented Sep 6, 2017 at 1:03

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Kubuntu Lucid user here. When I run sudo apt-get update I don't get a list of packages that need updating, I just get the list of the repositories being checked. For example:

Get:1 http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid Release.gpg [197B]
Hit http://it.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg
Hit http://archive.canonical.com lucid Release.gpg
Get:2 http://packages.medibuntu.org lucid Release [6854B]
(...)

sudo apt-get upgrade gives me the list of packages that can be updated, if there are any. If you apt-get says there aren't any updated packages, I guess you can trust it, unless there's some problems with your sources.list... But then apt-get update should tell you about them.

By the way, lately I've been using aptitude instead of apt-get: I find it better at managing problems, got me out of a tight corner once or twice... I just do:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade

I hope this helps.

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  • Additionally, "aptitude update" will tell you how many updates are available before you run the upgrade command.
    – maco
    Commented Aug 14, 2010 at 2:44

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