How can I update all Snap packages?












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I know that I can update a snap package using



sudo snap refresh <package>


But there is a way to update all snaps, like



sudo apt dist-upgrade









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    Since of snapd version 2.0.8 which is available in the ubuntu main repository now, the command sudo snap refresh updates all installed snap packages ! :)

    – cl-netbox
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:47








  • 1





    APT is good, it's comfortable and solid, but let's invent dozens of new formats AppImage, Span, Flatpak... this is really sad

    – Salaros
    May 6 '18 at 11:45











  • @Salaros but APT software packages don't get updates faster. Because of which new formats comes into the market. (Do u feel that?)

    – Prabesh Bhattarai
    Feb 27 at 16:27
















88















I know that I can update a snap package using



sudo snap refresh <package>


But there is a way to update all snaps, like



sudo apt dist-upgrade









share|improve this question




















  • 1





    Since of snapd version 2.0.8 which is available in the ubuntu main repository now, the command sudo snap refresh updates all installed snap packages ! :)

    – cl-netbox
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:47








  • 1





    APT is good, it's comfortable and solid, but let's invent dozens of new formats AppImage, Span, Flatpak... this is really sad

    – Salaros
    May 6 '18 at 11:45











  • @Salaros but APT software packages don't get updates faster. Because of which new formats comes into the market. (Do u feel that?)

    – Prabesh Bhattarai
    Feb 27 at 16:27














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I know that I can update a snap package using



sudo snap refresh <package>


But there is a way to update all snaps, like



sudo apt dist-upgrade









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I know that I can update a snap package using



sudo snap refresh <package>


But there is a way to update all snaps, like



sudo apt dist-upgrade






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  • 1





    Since of snapd version 2.0.8 which is available in the ubuntu main repository now, the command sudo snap refresh updates all installed snap packages ! :)

    – cl-netbox
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:47








  • 1





    APT is good, it's comfortable and solid, but let's invent dozens of new formats AppImage, Span, Flatpak... this is really sad

    – Salaros
    May 6 '18 at 11:45











  • @Salaros but APT software packages don't get updates faster. Because of which new formats comes into the market. (Do u feel that?)

    – Prabesh Bhattarai
    Feb 27 at 16:27














  • 1





    Since of snapd version 2.0.8 which is available in the ubuntu main repository now, the command sudo snap refresh updates all installed snap packages ! :)

    – cl-netbox
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:47








  • 1





    APT is good, it's comfortable and solid, but let's invent dozens of new formats AppImage, Span, Flatpak... this is really sad

    – Salaros
    May 6 '18 at 11:45











  • @Salaros but APT software packages don't get updates faster. Because of which new formats comes into the market. (Do u feel that?)

    – Prabesh Bhattarai
    Feb 27 at 16:27








1




1





Since of snapd version 2.0.8 which is available in the ubuntu main repository now, the command sudo snap refresh updates all installed snap packages ! :)

– cl-netbox
Jun 14 '16 at 7:47







Since of snapd version 2.0.8 which is available in the ubuntu main repository now, the command sudo snap refresh updates all installed snap packages ! :)

– cl-netbox
Jun 14 '16 at 7:47






1




1





APT is good, it's comfortable and solid, but let's invent dozens of new formats AppImage, Span, Flatpak... this is really sad

– Salaros
May 6 '18 at 11:45





APT is good, it's comfortable and solid, but let's invent dozens of new formats AppImage, Span, Flatpak... this is really sad

– Salaros
May 6 '18 at 11:45













@Salaros but APT software packages don't get updates faster. Because of which new formats comes into the market. (Do u feel that?)

– Prabesh Bhattarai
Feb 27 at 16:27





@Salaros but APT software packages don't get updates faster. Because of which new formats comes into the market. (Do u feel that?)

– Prabesh Bhattarai
Feb 27 at 16:27










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snap refresh 


will do this. It is part of snapd 2.0.8, which landed 2016-06-13 in xenial-updates.






share|improve this answer


























  • Isn't that for resfresh a package? Or it will update everything is a snap is not specified?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37











  • Is it implemented now?

    – JulianLai
    May 18 '16 at 8:31






  • 10





    snap refresh --list only lists the updates without refreshes the packages

    – gwarah
    Jan 4 '18 at 14:15






  • 22





    oh how I hate ubuntu. refresh... wtf guys, it's called upgrade.

    – Evan Carroll
    Jan 31 '18 at 1:41













  • This command just hangs. I check processes and it is sleeping...wtf?

    – smac89
    Mar 5 at 23:44



















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According to Snap tutorial Snaps are automatically updated in the background once per day.






share|improve this answer



















  • 10





    whoever thought this was good solution is wrong.

    – user140345
    Dec 1 '18 at 22:17













  • Elaborate on you comment, please.

    – chrisvdb
    Dec 2 '18 at 2:03






  • 6





    It means that a program which works yesterday may not work today, also that it cost me lots of money to do the update because my laptop was tethered by mobile at the time, and also that my system died on me during the update because I was using the package being updated at the time.

    – David Given
    Jan 13 at 23:21











  • @DavidGiven I agree with your point. I thought 'solution' in the earlier comment referred to my answer (which is factual), but it refers to the actual technical solution provided by Ubuntu.

    – chrisvdb
    Jan 16 at 3:51











  • I think that might work. My PhpStorm is updated automatically (in background) whenever there is new update.

    – Rajesh K. Chaudhary
    Feb 16 at 15:28



















3














Try this in /usr/bin/update-snaps:



#!/bin/bash
ROOT_UID="0"

#Check if run as root
if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ] ; then
echo "You must be root to do that!"
exit 1
fi

snap list | awk -F" " '{if ($1 && NR>1) { system("snap refresh " $1 " 2>/dev/null") }}'





share|improve this answer


























  • thanks. I know I can write a script, but I wanted the "native" solution, the way for "human beings" :D... I did not vote you down..

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37






  • 1





    Thanks for that! It's annoying that snap doesn't have this built-in yet (esp. since 16.04 is an LTS) but your one-liner with awk nicely works around that limitation. Doesn't deserve a downvote at all!

    – happyskeptic
    May 2 '16 at 9:28








  • 1





    This is not necessary any more.

    – dholbach
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:11











  • it is fixed now? I can refresh all my snaps with one command?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Jun 14 '16 at 14:13












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snap refresh 


will do this. It is part of snapd 2.0.8, which landed 2016-06-13 in xenial-updates.






share|improve this answer


























  • Isn't that for resfresh a package? Or it will update everything is a snap is not specified?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37











  • Is it implemented now?

    – JulianLai
    May 18 '16 at 8:31






  • 10





    snap refresh --list only lists the updates without refreshes the packages

    – gwarah
    Jan 4 '18 at 14:15






  • 22





    oh how I hate ubuntu. refresh... wtf guys, it's called upgrade.

    – Evan Carroll
    Jan 31 '18 at 1:41













  • This command just hangs. I check processes and it is sleeping...wtf?

    – smac89
    Mar 5 at 23:44
















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snap refresh 


will do this. It is part of snapd 2.0.8, which landed 2016-06-13 in xenial-updates.






share|improve this answer


























  • Isn't that for resfresh a package? Or it will update everything is a snap is not specified?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37











  • Is it implemented now?

    – JulianLai
    May 18 '16 at 8:31






  • 10





    snap refresh --list only lists the updates without refreshes the packages

    – gwarah
    Jan 4 '18 at 14:15






  • 22





    oh how I hate ubuntu. refresh... wtf guys, it's called upgrade.

    – Evan Carroll
    Jan 31 '18 at 1:41













  • This command just hangs. I check processes and it is sleeping...wtf?

    – smac89
    Mar 5 at 23:44














138












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snap refresh 


will do this. It is part of snapd 2.0.8, which landed 2016-06-13 in xenial-updates.






share|improve this answer















snap refresh 


will do this. It is part of snapd 2.0.8, which landed 2016-06-13 in xenial-updates.







share|improve this answer














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answered Apr 25 '16 at 13:43









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  • Isn't that for resfresh a package? Or it will update everything is a snap is not specified?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37











  • Is it implemented now?

    – JulianLai
    May 18 '16 at 8:31






  • 10





    snap refresh --list only lists the updates without refreshes the packages

    – gwarah
    Jan 4 '18 at 14:15






  • 22





    oh how I hate ubuntu. refresh... wtf guys, it's called upgrade.

    – Evan Carroll
    Jan 31 '18 at 1:41













  • This command just hangs. I check processes and it is sleeping...wtf?

    – smac89
    Mar 5 at 23:44



















  • Isn't that for resfresh a package? Or it will update everything is a snap is not specified?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37











  • Is it implemented now?

    – JulianLai
    May 18 '16 at 8:31






  • 10





    snap refresh --list only lists the updates without refreshes the packages

    – gwarah
    Jan 4 '18 at 14:15






  • 22





    oh how I hate ubuntu. refresh... wtf guys, it's called upgrade.

    – Evan Carroll
    Jan 31 '18 at 1:41













  • This command just hangs. I check processes and it is sleeping...wtf?

    – smac89
    Mar 5 at 23:44

















Isn't that for resfresh a package? Or it will update everything is a snap is not specified?

– Alejandro Vera
Apr 26 '16 at 2:37





Isn't that for resfresh a package? Or it will update everything is a snap is not specified?

– Alejandro Vera
Apr 26 '16 at 2:37













Is it implemented now?

– JulianLai
May 18 '16 at 8:31





Is it implemented now?

– JulianLai
May 18 '16 at 8:31




10




10





snap refresh --list only lists the updates without refreshes the packages

– gwarah
Jan 4 '18 at 14:15





snap refresh --list only lists the updates without refreshes the packages

– gwarah
Jan 4 '18 at 14:15




22




22





oh how I hate ubuntu. refresh... wtf guys, it's called upgrade.

– Evan Carroll
Jan 31 '18 at 1:41







oh how I hate ubuntu. refresh... wtf guys, it's called upgrade.

– Evan Carroll
Jan 31 '18 at 1:41















This command just hangs. I check processes and it is sleeping...wtf?

– smac89
Mar 5 at 23:44





This command just hangs. I check processes and it is sleeping...wtf?

– smac89
Mar 5 at 23:44













19














According to Snap tutorial Snaps are automatically updated in the background once per day.






share|improve this answer



















  • 10





    whoever thought this was good solution is wrong.

    – user140345
    Dec 1 '18 at 22:17













  • Elaborate on you comment, please.

    – chrisvdb
    Dec 2 '18 at 2:03






  • 6





    It means that a program which works yesterday may not work today, also that it cost me lots of money to do the update because my laptop was tethered by mobile at the time, and also that my system died on me during the update because I was using the package being updated at the time.

    – David Given
    Jan 13 at 23:21











  • @DavidGiven I agree with your point. I thought 'solution' in the earlier comment referred to my answer (which is factual), but it refers to the actual technical solution provided by Ubuntu.

    – chrisvdb
    Jan 16 at 3:51











  • I think that might work. My PhpStorm is updated automatically (in background) whenever there is new update.

    – Rajesh K. Chaudhary
    Feb 16 at 15:28
















19














According to Snap tutorial Snaps are automatically updated in the background once per day.






share|improve this answer



















  • 10





    whoever thought this was good solution is wrong.

    – user140345
    Dec 1 '18 at 22:17













  • Elaborate on you comment, please.

    – chrisvdb
    Dec 2 '18 at 2:03






  • 6





    It means that a program which works yesterday may not work today, also that it cost me lots of money to do the update because my laptop was tethered by mobile at the time, and also that my system died on me during the update because I was using the package being updated at the time.

    – David Given
    Jan 13 at 23:21











  • @DavidGiven I agree with your point. I thought 'solution' in the earlier comment referred to my answer (which is factual), but it refers to the actual technical solution provided by Ubuntu.

    – chrisvdb
    Jan 16 at 3:51











  • I think that might work. My PhpStorm is updated automatically (in background) whenever there is new update.

    – Rajesh K. Chaudhary
    Feb 16 at 15:28














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According to Snap tutorial Snaps are automatically updated in the background once per day.






share|improve this answer













According to Snap tutorial Snaps are automatically updated in the background once per day.







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answered May 10 '18 at 3:40









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  • 10





    whoever thought this was good solution is wrong.

    – user140345
    Dec 1 '18 at 22:17













  • Elaborate on you comment, please.

    – chrisvdb
    Dec 2 '18 at 2:03






  • 6





    It means that a program which works yesterday may not work today, also that it cost me lots of money to do the update because my laptop was tethered by mobile at the time, and also that my system died on me during the update because I was using the package being updated at the time.

    – David Given
    Jan 13 at 23:21











  • @DavidGiven I agree with your point. I thought 'solution' in the earlier comment referred to my answer (which is factual), but it refers to the actual technical solution provided by Ubuntu.

    – chrisvdb
    Jan 16 at 3:51











  • I think that might work. My PhpStorm is updated automatically (in background) whenever there is new update.

    – Rajesh K. Chaudhary
    Feb 16 at 15:28














  • 10





    whoever thought this was good solution is wrong.

    – user140345
    Dec 1 '18 at 22:17













  • Elaborate on you comment, please.

    – chrisvdb
    Dec 2 '18 at 2:03






  • 6





    It means that a program which works yesterday may not work today, also that it cost me lots of money to do the update because my laptop was tethered by mobile at the time, and also that my system died on me during the update because I was using the package being updated at the time.

    – David Given
    Jan 13 at 23:21











  • @DavidGiven I agree with your point. I thought 'solution' in the earlier comment referred to my answer (which is factual), but it refers to the actual technical solution provided by Ubuntu.

    – chrisvdb
    Jan 16 at 3:51











  • I think that might work. My PhpStorm is updated automatically (in background) whenever there is new update.

    – Rajesh K. Chaudhary
    Feb 16 at 15:28








10




10





whoever thought this was good solution is wrong.

– user140345
Dec 1 '18 at 22:17







whoever thought this was good solution is wrong.

– user140345
Dec 1 '18 at 22:17















Elaborate on you comment, please.

– chrisvdb
Dec 2 '18 at 2:03





Elaborate on you comment, please.

– chrisvdb
Dec 2 '18 at 2:03




6




6





It means that a program which works yesterday may not work today, also that it cost me lots of money to do the update because my laptop was tethered by mobile at the time, and also that my system died on me during the update because I was using the package being updated at the time.

– David Given
Jan 13 at 23:21





It means that a program which works yesterday may not work today, also that it cost me lots of money to do the update because my laptop was tethered by mobile at the time, and also that my system died on me during the update because I was using the package being updated at the time.

– David Given
Jan 13 at 23:21













@DavidGiven I agree with your point. I thought 'solution' in the earlier comment referred to my answer (which is factual), but it refers to the actual technical solution provided by Ubuntu.

– chrisvdb
Jan 16 at 3:51





@DavidGiven I agree with your point. I thought 'solution' in the earlier comment referred to my answer (which is factual), but it refers to the actual technical solution provided by Ubuntu.

– chrisvdb
Jan 16 at 3:51













I think that might work. My PhpStorm is updated automatically (in background) whenever there is new update.

– Rajesh K. Chaudhary
Feb 16 at 15:28





I think that might work. My PhpStorm is updated automatically (in background) whenever there is new update.

– Rajesh K. Chaudhary
Feb 16 at 15:28











3














Try this in /usr/bin/update-snaps:



#!/bin/bash
ROOT_UID="0"

#Check if run as root
if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ] ; then
echo "You must be root to do that!"
exit 1
fi

snap list | awk -F" " '{if ($1 && NR>1) { system("snap refresh " $1 " 2>/dev/null") }}'





share|improve this answer


























  • thanks. I know I can write a script, but I wanted the "native" solution, the way for "human beings" :D... I did not vote you down..

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37






  • 1





    Thanks for that! It's annoying that snap doesn't have this built-in yet (esp. since 16.04 is an LTS) but your one-liner with awk nicely works around that limitation. Doesn't deserve a downvote at all!

    – happyskeptic
    May 2 '16 at 9:28








  • 1





    This is not necessary any more.

    – dholbach
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:11











  • it is fixed now? I can refresh all my snaps with one command?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Jun 14 '16 at 14:13
















3














Try this in /usr/bin/update-snaps:



#!/bin/bash
ROOT_UID="0"

#Check if run as root
if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ] ; then
echo "You must be root to do that!"
exit 1
fi

snap list | awk -F" " '{if ($1 && NR>1) { system("snap refresh " $1 " 2>/dev/null") }}'





share|improve this answer


























  • thanks. I know I can write a script, but I wanted the "native" solution, the way for "human beings" :D... I did not vote you down..

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37






  • 1





    Thanks for that! It's annoying that snap doesn't have this built-in yet (esp. since 16.04 is an LTS) but your one-liner with awk nicely works around that limitation. Doesn't deserve a downvote at all!

    – happyskeptic
    May 2 '16 at 9:28








  • 1





    This is not necessary any more.

    – dholbach
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:11











  • it is fixed now? I can refresh all my snaps with one command?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Jun 14 '16 at 14:13














3












3








3







Try this in /usr/bin/update-snaps:



#!/bin/bash
ROOT_UID="0"

#Check if run as root
if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ] ; then
echo "You must be root to do that!"
exit 1
fi

snap list | awk -F" " '{if ($1 && NR>1) { system("snap refresh " $1 " 2>/dev/null") }}'





share|improve this answer















Try this in /usr/bin/update-snaps:



#!/bin/bash
ROOT_UID="0"

#Check if run as root
if [ "$UID" -ne "$ROOT_UID" ] ; then
echo "You must be root to do that!"
exit 1
fi

snap list | awk -F" " '{if ($1 && NR>1) { system("snap refresh " $1 " 2>/dev/null") }}'






share|improve this answer














share|improve this answer



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edited Feb 22 at 3:29









Pablo Bianchi

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answered Apr 24 '16 at 9:35









carloscarlos

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  • thanks. I know I can write a script, but I wanted the "native" solution, the way for "human beings" :D... I did not vote you down..

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37






  • 1





    Thanks for that! It's annoying that snap doesn't have this built-in yet (esp. since 16.04 is an LTS) but your one-liner with awk nicely works around that limitation. Doesn't deserve a downvote at all!

    – happyskeptic
    May 2 '16 at 9:28








  • 1





    This is not necessary any more.

    – dholbach
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:11











  • it is fixed now? I can refresh all my snaps with one command?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Jun 14 '16 at 14:13



















  • thanks. I know I can write a script, but I wanted the "native" solution, the way for "human beings" :D... I did not vote you down..

    – Alejandro Vera
    Apr 26 '16 at 2:37






  • 1





    Thanks for that! It's annoying that snap doesn't have this built-in yet (esp. since 16.04 is an LTS) but your one-liner with awk nicely works around that limitation. Doesn't deserve a downvote at all!

    – happyskeptic
    May 2 '16 at 9:28








  • 1





    This is not necessary any more.

    – dholbach
    Jun 14 '16 at 7:11











  • it is fixed now? I can refresh all my snaps with one command?

    – Alejandro Vera
    Jun 14 '16 at 14:13

















thanks. I know I can write a script, but I wanted the "native" solution, the way for "human beings" :D... I did not vote you down..

– Alejandro Vera
Apr 26 '16 at 2:37





thanks. I know I can write a script, but I wanted the "native" solution, the way for "human beings" :D... I did not vote you down..

– Alejandro Vera
Apr 26 '16 at 2:37




1




1





Thanks for that! It's annoying that snap doesn't have this built-in yet (esp. since 16.04 is an LTS) but your one-liner with awk nicely works around that limitation. Doesn't deserve a downvote at all!

– happyskeptic
May 2 '16 at 9:28







Thanks for that! It's annoying that snap doesn't have this built-in yet (esp. since 16.04 is an LTS) but your one-liner with awk nicely works around that limitation. Doesn't deserve a downvote at all!

– happyskeptic
May 2 '16 at 9:28






1




1





This is not necessary any more.

– dholbach
Jun 14 '16 at 7:11





This is not necessary any more.

– dholbach
Jun 14 '16 at 7:11













it is fixed now? I can refresh all my snaps with one command?

– Alejandro Vera
Jun 14 '16 at 14:13





it is fixed now? I can refresh all my snaps with one command?

– Alejandro Vera
Jun 14 '16 at 14:13


















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