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This message is shown sometimes after booting:

This obviously leads me to believe that there is an update available somewhere, but clicking on it does nothing, and I can't find any updates in the Software Updater either. It would at least help if it let me know how to install them.

How/where do I install these updates, and if this is a bug, how do I fix it?

muru
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foxite
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I would recomend to clean your packages and run an update by the terminal. first:

sudo apt-get clean

and than I have a nice code for you- I ran it since 6 years, started an my 12.04 and now at (still) 16.04 LTS and be very happy with it:

sudo apt-get -y update; sudo apt-get -y upgrade; sudo apt-get -y autoremove

to explane:

 -y:         says "yes" to the question "are you shure you want..." 
 update:     prepares the system packages upgrade 
 upgrade:    does the packages update (no deleting or installing of new packages)
 autoremove: removes packages what are no longer needed
 ;         : compared to && it will do the following command even the first command would not execute completely
Thomas
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The extra and outdated notification messages are a bug. This has been fixed in development and the update will be released for Ubuntu 16.04 soon, probably later this month (June 2016).

Try running sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade.

Kokil
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As to my experience: After running these commands:

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

then this command:

sudo apt list --upgradable

i got a list of upgradeable packages, then i ran this command on each of them:

sudo apt-get upgrade XXXX

which XXXX is the package name. Then the problem was solved.

Ali Borsan
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