Fedora – GUI Software Update Inconsistent with DNF Command Line Update

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During a Gnome session I received an upgrade notification from Software Update so I switched to a tty (I never run 'dnf upgrade' inside an X session) to run the update but 'dnf upgrade' shows that no updates are available.
The Software Update gui clearly shows a higher version for the new packages but a 'dnf list updates' does not display them.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Is the gui tool using different repositories?

Best Answer

Right now, the GUI tool and DNF use different caches. This is being worked on but is a known annoyance. They will eventually come into sync. You can use dnf --refresh to force DNF to update its cache.

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#!/bin/bash

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SECURITY_UPDATES_NUM=`echo "$SECURITY_UPDATES_LIST" | sed '/^$/d' | wc -l`

if [ "$SECURITY_UPDATES_NUM" -eq 0 ]; then
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fi

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