How can I dismiss "Software Updates Installed" notification?

Question

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?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '23 at 08:04

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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".

answered Jul 08 '23 at 08:04

Mike

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Thanks so much for this. It's been driving me a little buggy, and this solved the problem. – coolhandlewk Aug 01 '23 at 20:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '23 at 08:59

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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...

answered Jun 01 '23 at 08:59

Bobby

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Brilliant, that's resolved it for me too. Thank you! – Jake Jun 04 '23 at 10:55

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