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I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I was updating the software on my PC through the Software Updater. It downloaded all the packages but unfortunately during the installation process it stopped responding from the last 3 hours. Please suggest the safest possible way to get out of this situation.

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Saprativa Bhattacharjee
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I had exactly the same problem. I killed the process software updater using the System Moniter. Then i restarted the machine and tried to update it again using the terminal. It said that i had to run some command to configure the error.(I don't remember the command) Then the software updater displayed a message saying updates have been already downloaded click to insall. I did so. Then the software updater installed the updates. Problem solved.

note: Some of the steps I described may not be essential. I just described what I did.

Thulina Chandima
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  • Are you sure your problem was exactly the same? Looks like a locale problem... – Zanna Apr 08 '17 at 05:55
  • I just experienced the software updater not responding. I couldn't close or expand the window from anywhere in the GUI. What I ended up doing was using pgrep and ps to find and kill the process. After that, I manually updated the APT cache and ran apt-get upgrade. That seems to have fixed the problem. I admit that I've not run update-manager after the manual upgrade. – Matthew Setter Mar 27 '18 at 14:35