Dean I did install gnome in Virtual Box to look more into this, and found that, after removing some packages that I don't use like libreoffice-common rhythmbox thunderbird gnome-photos, the terminal showed me that I have 233 updates, but the Software Center reported 222. But when click to update in Software Center, another window popup with extra more 13 packages, which are new dependencies added to existing packages.
But still 222+13=235>233 as reported from terminal as available updates.
When finished Software Center reported 238 updates, so 5 extra more updates.
Looking ate the eopkg history found that:
- 5 Packages were removed
- 220 Packages were upgraded
- 13 Packages were installed.
- 238 operations in total.
So I think that Software Center counts all removed packages as 1 and all installed packages as 1
So "220 (upgrades) + 1(all removed packages) + 1(all installed) = 222 (Available Updates)
And correctly counts the operations, as reported "238/233 upgrades done"
In your case I think it could be:
- 2 Packages removed (count as 1)
- 115 package upgrades
So the Software Center is reporting 115+1="116 Available Updates".
But of course we all know that the Software Center needs a Rewrite 😛.
Maybe someone should send a PR, to fix the way SC calculate things. The rewrite will take a while.
