Could someone please clarify how snaps are updated on Ubuntu-Gnome. I installed Ubuntu-Gnome at the beginning of August and my experience to date has been that on at least 2 occasions there are been snap updates available under the App-Center ‘manage’ tab that I didn’t know about until I opened the App-Center. I thought snaps updated in the background automatically or when ‘Software Updater’ is run which I do after every login. If user intervention is required for password entry for some snap updates, then desktop notifications would be really good to alert the user. This is potentially a security issue.
I’m running old hardware and understand this issue could be related to just my installation. Relevant System Information:
I’ve checked Setting/Apps/ App-Center; notifications are enabled.
I’ve checked Settings/Notifications - The App-Center is not listed??
I presume this could be the problem?
By default snapd checks for refreshable snaps 4 times per day, you can check with snap refresh --time when it will try the next time …
See snap help refresh for more details … and here is even more info if you want to set up your own refresh schedule (or turn off auto refreshing altogether)
Were these applications that were running at the time?
(“Running” might include applications with no open windows…but still active. Like Discord and similar always-on applications)
Snapd won’t update an application that is running.
If an update is available to an running application, the user will receive an occasional reminder notification.
In my experience with Ubuntu Gnome, the Snap packages are being updated whenever Software Updater updates .deb packages. I see a notice “updating snaps” after the .deb package updates have finished. See the screenshot.
If I click on “manage” in App Center, it shows you when each snap package was updated last.
