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[Fedora Silverblue] Why are these updates still shown to me? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've activated automatic updates in Gnome Software Center. Now more and more updates are shown to me here. Even after a reboot, the update notifications are still there.
If I manually click on "update all" and reboot, the update notifications disappear, but I actually thought, after reading the documentation, that updates would require no action from me at all, and that's what I want.

The weird thing is, the installed programs themselves claim to already be on the new, updated version.
So why are the updates still shown in the Software Center?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Those might be flatpak "refreshes", which show up as "updating to the same version". As described by a flatpak maintainer, sometimes an app or runtime gets updated without changing the user-facing version number. I assume that's what you're seeing here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

the version change is right there in the screenshot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The screenshot doesn't show any version change to signal - the version number is the same, so I was just answering why you might see an update like that since I thought that was part of your question.