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For days, Software has been nagging me to close snap-store so that it can update itself.

Now that's resolved and it has finally installed various updates, it shows a notification every time I boot up:

Software Updates Installed
Important OS updates have been installed
[ Review ] [ Cancel ] [ OK ]

No matter whether I click Review, Cancel or OK, it still displays this notification next time I reboot.

How can I dismiss it permanently?

Jake
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I found an old discussion about the problem on the Debian forums (https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=121809)

The solution is to delete the logfile at /var/lib/PackageKit/offline-update-competed. This solved the problem for me and is less invasive than removing "gnome-software".

Mike
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I had a similar but not quite same issue and found that both gnome-software (apt package) and snap-store (snap) were installed... Removing the one I don't use (in my case gnome-software) solved the issue.

Hope it helps...

Bobby
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I found a solution in another thread that fixed it for me.

killall snap-store && sudo snap switch snap-store --channel=latest/stable/ubuntu-23.10 && sudo snap refresh
ver.i
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On Ubuntu 23.10 the suggested solutions did not work for me. I managed to resolve the issue by emptying the /var/log/unattended-upgrades folder instead.

tartaluca
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To avoid the issue above and other related snap-store bugs and failings, a couple of months ago I removed snap-store:

snap remove snap-store

This leaves the snap system intact, but just removes the troublesome snap-store.

Instead I now use gnome-software which manages snaps perfectly without any of the above issues. gnome-software also has the advantage that it handles flatpak and DEB packages.

Jake
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