Software Updater problems: Not all updates can be installed and no automatic updates

[maro]

I am not sure what went wrong but I receive this message when starting the Software Updater.

1. Is there any way to make this message disappear? This laptop is running Ubuntu MATE 16.04 which I installed months ago on a freshly formatted SSD. No other operating system was installed on this laptop. I don't want to upgrade to 16.10 on this machine. Is this related to the 16.04.1 upgrade?

2. The Software Updater also won't automatically update and I always have to manually click on it every day despite the fact that I activated Daily Notifications. How to check whether I have it installed? Any help in solving any of these issues is greatly appreciated.

After clicking on Partial Upgrade I get this error message:

[WhyAreLess]

Press Continue instead and install the updates.
Then run the Software Updater again!

If it’s telling you to do a Partial Upgrade the second time, click on that.
Restart the computer and run the Software Updater and it should now be uptodate!

[Mike1]

I have this problem too, and your metod no work for me, in my case the problem is with the last libreoffice update.

[maro]

When clicking on Continue, it shows that all software is updated but when I reboot it appears again. Partial upgrade is also not possible (see second screenshot).

[Mike1]

This is what happens when I do a "sudo apt-get upgrade" with a terminal, and the libreoffice and some linux don't update...

[lah7]

This appeared on mine too yesterday. I would bet it’s due to the new LibreOffice 5.2 update in their PPA.

Try these in a terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt dist-upgrade

I believe it needs to run one set of updates first (e.g. LibreOffice), then run another set of updates (e.g. kernel), and then it should return back to normal.

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Also, if this is caused by LibreOffice 5.2, you’ll need one extra package to"fix" the theming: libreoffice-gtk2

GTK theme lost since update of LibreOffice to 5.2

I found the missing package: libreoffice-gtk2. Installing that fixed the theme issue.

[anon42388993]

I thought that was changed to

sudo apt full-upgrade

or

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[Mike1]

This works for me, Thankyou!

[elcste]

The apt man page only lists full-upgrade, but I think sudo apt dist-upgrade does work.

[stevecook172001]

I uninstalled and purged Libreoffice and then reinstalled it yesterday to fix the theming. I thought it was just me with that problem