I cant get my imac to update

My imac tells me that there are a long list of updates to be done. This messages comes up once a week, and each time i click update, it then states it must restart to update.
The computer then restarts, but at no point during this process does any information come up during the normal process as it does with my white macbook. After a few momnets the computer then comes back on as normal, and works fine with no error message at all, however the updates have not been completed and are still shown if i click update now?

I would recommend opening a Finder Window-Go Menu-click the Go to..... location and copy and paste the following
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist
into the window. Once you have located com.apple.SoftwareUpdate.plist file drag it to your desktop. Then restart the computer in Safe Mode (hold down the Shift Key when you hear the startup tone until a progress bar appears) Once the machine has restarted in Safe Mode then restart the computer normally and re-try Software Update. Then report back with the results. 

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