Comment 5 for bug 752201

the problem has been rectified, so this can be closed.
btw, other people had similar problem, according to the launchpad link.
i'm not familiar with how updates are packaged and/or if there are different packages for each version of ubuntu, but another person indicated he had the same problem with 10.04 but not with 10.10, so i'm guessing that it was a packaging problem.
thanks for looking into this though.

> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:20:04 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 752201] Re: apr 05/11 update renders updates inoperable
>
> As said, there is not a single command associated with 'sudo apt-get install'. This is already a command!
> A command to install one or more packages.
>
> If you want to run the commands 'update', 'upgrade', 'dist-upgrade'
> and/or all the others it's as simple as 'sudo apt-get update', 'sudo
> apt-get upgrade', 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' or alike (note: no
> 'install' in between).
>
> 'sudo apt-get install update' never worked and will never work. The
> commands you are looking for are most properly 'sudo apt-get update' to
> update the knowledge of APT about which packages are available and 'sudo
> apt-get upgrade' to let APT install all updates for your installed
> packages (which can be installed, but as you say something about held
> back packages, it seems its not possible for all at the moment).
>
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> Title:
> apr 05/11 update renders updates inoperable
>
> Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> interesting problem today. i think i saw a posting of this before but
> can't find it.
>
> i did an update about an hour ago via the update manager. there was a
> message that said all packages cannot be installed and that a partial
> update should be attempted to install as many packages as possible.
> after doing that, i did another update. there are other packages
> shown, but they are greyed out, so is the install updates button.
>
> issuing sudo apt-get install update resulted in
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> E: Couldn't find package update
>
> using 10.04.2 LTS
>
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