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I boot Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS from a USB drive. When the desktop is fully loaded, I get a bubble message at top center that says, "Software updates available to download. Please download waiting software updates." There doesn't appear to be anything to click, or any indication of how to proceed.

I run a Google search for the first sentence of that bubble message. At present, it finds virtually nothing on point. (There seems to have been more attention to a somewhat similar message that I get at bootup, on another machine, regarding extension updates.)

I go into Applications Menu > System Tools > Software Updater. It says, "The software on this computer is up to date." I click its Settings & Livepatch button > Updates tab. It confirms that I have set its "Automatically check for updates" option to Never. (I have it set to Never because I invariably run sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade promptly after bootup.)

I run sudo apt update. It confirms: "All packages are up to date."

If there are updates that need to be installed, I would like to install them. In that case, it would seem that both Software Updater and sudo apt update are wrong. On the other hand, if they are right, I would like to turn off the bubble message.

No doubt I am failing to grasp something about snap updates, or some such thing. I would appreciate a tutorial or, even better, a way to streamline the updating process so that one command, script, or tool would automate or otherwise take care of it.

Ray Woodcock
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The results of running sudo apt update that confirm that All packages are up to date is correct. It just takes some time for the bubble notification at the top center of the desktop to be updated so that it catches up with the latest software updates from sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.

The notifications from the Ubuntu Software app of pending software updates are laggy too, so the best way to check if your installed software is up-to-date is to run the sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and sudo snap refresh commands from the terminal.

To disable Software Updater pop-up notifications run the following command:

gsettings set com.ubuntu.update-notifier no-show-notifications true

To reenable Software Updater pop-up notifications run the following command:

gsettings set com.ubuntu.update-notifier no-show-notifications false

For other options for turning off Software Updater pop-up notifications see How to turn off Software Updater pop-up notifications?.

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