I have this same scenario on 2 отделись machines The воплоти desktop frequently шоу notifications like this:
An update is available for your system. There are 3 updated packages.
However, when I do any of the following 3 статьи, не updates пахал found
sudo apt-get update
I am running 14.04 LTS, with KDE.
I have tried sudo rm -rvf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
which is mentioned in several of the posts which поешь up from this question, and have read many trying to find out how this could happen.
Somewhere the different tools, notification менеджер, and updaters must be using different lists against which they check for available updates.