[kwlug-disc] Software Update Question

[Charles M]

I think I typed:

sudo fwupdmgr update

Hope that helps...

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:52 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
>
> I have a situation that I have never seen before.
> This is an Xubuntu 18.04 laptop.
>
> I get a popup that something needs to be updated.
> This is a GUI, which I never use. I always update from the command line.
>
> Here is how it looks like:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/ZYu77eD.png
>
> There is the same program with the same icon when I go into the mouse menu and search for "software". Mousing over it says : "Add, Remove or Update Software on this computer".
>
> Then when I click on it, I get a very wide window that goes beyond the screen on both side, and it cannot be resize, and under Updates there is the following:
>
> https://i.imgur.com/Jn090FT.png
>
> When I run:
>
> sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
>
> there is nothing to be updated.
>
> So what is this Unifying Receiver, and which package controls the updates for it, that are not dpkg/apt?
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