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Updating a snap

Asked by Moshe Caspi

1. What is done during pre-downloading a snap update (around 80MB are downloaded)?
2. Why does it look like the snap update is downloaded again during the update itself (around 80MB are downloaded)?

$ snap changes
ID Status Spawn Ready Summary
396 Done today at 07:57 today at 07:58 Pre-download "firefox" for auto-refresh
397 Done today at 08:04 today at 08:05 Refresh snap "firefox"

$ snap tasks 397
Status Spawn Ready Summary
Done today at 08:04 today at 08:04 Ensure prerequisites for "firefox" are available
Done today at 08:04 today at 08:05 Download snap "firefox" (3166) from channel "latest/stable"

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

If you need to update your snaps.
Open a terminal[ctl+alt+t] :
sudo snap refresh

This will update all of your snaps.
Follow with :
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

This will ensure your entire O.S. is up to date.

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Moshe Caspi (mcaspi12) said : 		#2

Thanks for you reply, but it doesn't answer my questions.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

This is a question for the snap environment and has (at least in my opinion) nothing to do with Ubuntu. So I suggest that you ask at https://forum.snapcraft.io/c/snapd/5

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