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The snap refresh
command is used in systems that have the Snap package manager installed. Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu operating system.
When you execute the snap refresh
command, it checks for updates for all installed snaps on your system and updates them to the latest available versions if any updates are found. Snaps are containerized software packages that include all their dependencies, allowing them to run unchanged across different distributions and versions of Linux.
By running snap refresh
, you ensure that all the snaps installed on your system are up to date, giving you access to the latest features, bug fixes, and security updates provided by the snap maintainers. It's similar to using a package manager like apt
or dnf
to update packages in a traditional Linux distribution.