If you get a notification that a Snap package like Slack needs to be closed for a pending update, it's not immediately obvious what Ubuntu wants you to do:
It needs the slack app to be closed so it can install an update that is pending. What you'll need to do:
- Close all of the application's windows
- If it's Slack or another application that continues to run in the background, find the little icon next to the clock, right-click it and select
Quit- If it's an application running in the background without any visible icon (like snap-store) you can run
sudo killall snap-store
- If it's an application running in the background without any visible icon (like snap-store) you can run
- In a terminal, run
sudo snap refreshto perform the update manually
Especially for long running applications like Snap, Firefox or Chromium, it's a good idea to force the update right now and make the notification go away.
Posted by Florian Heinle to makandra orga (2022-09-06 06:27)