How to temporarily stop the snap store so it can update

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Good day,

I recently -about two weeks ago - brought up a new clean install of Ubuntu 20.04.1. For the last nine days, I have been getting a notification that I need to stop the snap store so it can update. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a way to temporarily stop the snap store so the update can happen.

The only advice I have found on general Linux/Ubuntu forums is details on removing snap entirely - which I have no intention of doing.

Anyway, if someone can point me to details on how to take care of this I would greatly appreciate it.

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You’ll have to end up killing the snap store as simply closing the window keeps the store running in the background:

killall snap-store

Then tell snapd to update all snaps:

sudo snap refresh

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Thanks for the info. I will give that a try.

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