[kwlug-disc] Software Update Question

[peter_melse at gto.net]

If this was in an ubuntu commercial repository, it may have been removed 
as well.

this might be an alternative:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/logitech-unifying-receiver-linux-solaar


On 2021-03-10 16:16, Charles M wrote:
> Hi Khalid, are you using a wireless Logitech mouse? If so it might be
> the wireless dongle. I remember updating the one in our KODI media
> centre, but I don't remember what I did at the moment.
> 
> 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?
>> --
>> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
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