My fresh Ubuntu install says I need some updates. Okay, but there are some problems.

First, it tells me to close the snap-store to update it, but the snap-store is not open.

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Okay, I'll try opening the snap-store to look for updates.

"This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!" -Nute Gunray

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Okay, let's try the gnome update.

It appears to be Schrödinger's update: available and not available at the same time.

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How about the snap-store update? Well, you can't update that while the snap-store is running.

Any ideas on how to install these updates?

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Maybe use Software Updater? Nope, it doesn't think there are updates.

Are there? If so, how do I apply them? If not, how do I remove the notifications from the list in the snap store?

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@peterdrake Hmm, all I can think of is to use the good old command line:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo snap refresh

@JensHannemann That happily ran, but the snap store and the notifications under the clock both think I still have updates.

I assume the &&s in your command are short-circuited so the later parts run only if the first parts ... succeed? My only confusion here is that I would expect a process to return 0 (false) if it succeeded.

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@JensHannemann Update: after restarting the snap store, it's happy! Thanks!

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