Keeping your system updated: exploring update methods
We’ve talked about how critical it is to ensure the software installed on our system is kept up to date with the latest security fixes; now, let’s learn how we can most effectively do that in practice.
Snaps
Let’s start by covering snap updates, which are pretty simple. Snaps are automatically updated regularly. More specifically, your system will check for updates to installed snaps approximately every four hours and automatically apply any available updates for applications that aren’t currently in use. Why not apply updates for running applications? That could cause instability, so we hold updates for running applications for up to 14 days. If an update is available for an application that’s in use, you’ll get a notification letting you know to restart the application at your convenience to install the update. In the background, SnapD downloads the update and waits for the process...
