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submitted 16 hours ago by adrianhooves@lemmy.today to c/linux@lemmy.ml

i have been using linux mint and i enjoy the automatic updates feature of course!! it makes it easier to update flatpaks and packages! great, but, i also remember i was a user of ubuntu (xfce) and it had the same software but it was kind of weird because it only updated packages i think so.

is there any software or apps that you can download on other distros that do the same thing that linux mint does in regards to updates?? that it updates flatpaks and packages and everything. thank you very much, that would make my system more stable and up to date.

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[-] Patch@feddit.uk 2 points 9 hours ago

Ubuntu's software updater updates both deb packages and snaps. To my knowledge it doesn't do flatpaks, though, as Ubuntu officially doesn't support them.

[-] stuner@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago

Both KDE Discover and Gnome Software offer similar functionality. You should also be able to use them without their respective shells.

[-] riscwarez@feddit.online 7 points 13 hours ago

bauh, it has support for Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Appimages, Flatpaks, Snaps and web apps.

[-] jamesbunagna@discuss.online 1 points 7 hours ago

Seems cool, but it's unfortunate that the project doesn't seem healthy. Last commit was 5 months ago. Furthermore, its maintainer has even explicitly mentioned that the future of its project is uncertain. At least, we gotta give them credits for being transparent.

[-] tiny@midwest.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Cockpit has an update manager built in and has the ability to setup dnf automatic

[-] bbbhltz@beehaw.org 9 points 16 hours ago

Different software management systems can interact with Flatpak. I think the KDE package manager can, and the Gnome package manager too, if you install the plugin.

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 3 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, I think it depends on how the distro decides to implement it, can't remember now but I think e. g. in Fedora KDE you need to tick a box somewhere in Discover's (KDE's updater) settings (and then it's Fedora's own Flatpak repo?). In Bazzite which I'm using atm it's Flatpaks all the way down anyway 😸

It's also quite nice in KDE that you can do Flatpak permissions etc in System Settings.

[-] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Several distros have those kinds of utilities built in.

Synaptics Package Manager comes preinstalled in lots of Debian derivatives.

Manjaro, Bazzite, and Endeavour have their own bespoke update managers. (Others do, as well, but those are the three non-Debians I've used most recently.)

[-] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 14 hours ago

Just a heads-up: Synaptic doesn't come preinstalled on Debian or Ubuntu anymore.
It's 25 years old software, and tends to behave weirdly when you try to uninstall multiple packages.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

OpenSUSE has GUI software updates via GNOME package updater or KDE discovery center, but also has GUI Yast software manager independent of DE

this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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