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Pending Update of Snap Store ... still. The answers on Pending Update of Snap Store aren't working for me (or maybe I'm just not understanding them correctly). Tried several of the ideas posted but still 'Pending Update of Snap Store' pops up.

Answer from User535733:

Quit the application (in this case, snap-store [a.k.a. Ubuntu Software]). You might not recall that you have it open, but you do. Maybe it's minimized. Find it and Quit the application.

Can find Snap (when I press 'see hidden files') ... but can't see it's open. How can I close it?.

If I tentatively assume that it is already closed, and proceed with sudo snap refresh, the answer is all snaps up to date.

Re-launch your application.

OK … how to do that?

When snap/snap store is an application, why can't I see it under settings/applications?

Second and third parts of that answer, as I understand it, the error is that the snap store needs to be updated (even though it says 'all snaps up to date') because it hasn't been closed for 2 weeks, even though I've only had the computer for 10 days (and can't update when it's open) ... and if it doesn't (because i can't figure out how), it just that snap then shuts itself down and updates itself. Is that correctly understood? (no big disaster waiting to happen, then)

Do I have to open snap manually then?

Will this be a recurring problem (annoying pop-up) every 2 weeks?

answer from mrjusepelo:

sudo snap refresh snap-store

returns "snap-store" has no updates available. But how can they be 'Pending' then?

When I run

sudo apt-get upgrade it shows that:

snapd.failure.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it
snapd.snap-repair.service is a disabled or a static unit not running, not starting it.

Is that as it should be?

Edit: The problems here, are probably my lack of understanding of the answers in the other thread, not understanding the lingo. And that I didn't understand rather elementary things like how to close an app, or that snap-store and Ubuntu software are the same (I'll bet I'm not the only beginner who didn't get that) ... and knowing that also gives the answer to 'When snap store is an application', why can't I see it under settings/applications? well you can, as Ubuntu software (Thanks to 535733 for input). I have gradually figured most of it out (I hope) ... but I see my question as an example, of how difficult it is to be new :)

So, only question left: When 'sudo snap refresh snap-store' returns "snap-store" has no updates available, how can they be 'Pending' then?

Jack Jensen
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I'm kinda new to this too and I've had this issue cropping up. Make sure you close the snap-store/software app. Go to the terminal and type

pidof snap

This should give you the pid of the snapstore Then type

kill pidnumber

Replacing the pidnumber with the number you were given Then type

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade snap

This should upgrade snap whilst all process are not running for it. Run Snap Store to see if that fixed the issue.

Sandman
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Found answers to some of my own questions (and I know this is probably so basic that most of you might wonder that one doesn't just know):

One way to close applications is to go into Show Applications, System Monitor, and there find the app you want to close ... right-click and select kill.

You can 'Re-launch your application' simply by restarting the computer.

Most of the rest of my confusion was resolved when 535733 in the notes explained to me that snap-store and Ubuntu Software are the same thing ... copying that info to here, to get a comprehensive answer to my questions.

Jack Jensen
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