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I finally experienced my first "phantom" update notification in Ubuntu 9.04. In previous versions of the system, a little icon on the upper panel would notify me that updates were available. I could either click the icon and open the Update Manager, then do the update.

But in this new system, the icon is gone. At some interval that I don't understand, the Update Manager just opens, minimized. I brought the window up and did the updates.

It's kind of jarring to have that Update Manager window just start up on its own. I've seen a lot of controversy over this change, both in Launchpad and in the Ubuntu Forums (I don't have the links right now, or I'd link 'em up here).

I also have a single package, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad, listed under the category "Distribution Updates" in the Update Manager, which can't be checked to update.

In this forum thread, the problem is acknowledged but not solved.

I did see somewhere that upgrading the package through Synaptic instead of the Update Manager can make it work.

Here's what I did:

I went into the Synaptic Package Manager, did a "quick search" for gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad and "manually" upgraded the package, which required the removal of another package, gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mpegdemux

Now I'm the proud owner of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad version 0.10.11-0ubuntu1, and Update Manager is cleared out.

So ... it appears that the Update Manager is loath to remove a package, but Synaptic is not.