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It pops up as usual, yet there are some updates that are unselected and i can't select them. I deselect all, and select all, yet again they are still unselected. I did 

 sudo apt-get update

and after a time it popped and yet again they are still there. How can I fix this? Is it just related with my ubuntu or general issue?

Kihlaj
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sudo apt-get update only searches your current repositories for any new/updated packages. If you actually want to update the packages, you need to run sudo apt-get upgrade.

You didn't provide many details, but I'm going to assume those packages that aren't getting selected have linux-image-generic in their names. If you want to upgrade those, the sudo apt-get dist-upgrade command is what you need to run (after sudo apt-get update of course).

For more information on what the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade is, I recommend taking a look at this answer.

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TheWanderer
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You can try to update from the command line. Open terminal and type the following in order:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade -y
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

This should fully update all packages on your system.

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