Never-ending "Software updates installed" notification. How can I remove it?

[Paddy Landau]

For a while now (probably a few weeks, though I'm unsure of that), every time I boot my computer, Gnome Software Store gives me the notification, "Software Updates installed. Important OS updates have been installed."

When I click on the notification, I get the following list. It's always the same list, even though there have been many updates since this notification started happening.

Automatic Updates and Automatic Update Notifications are turned off.

What's curious is that the current installation of Grub is version 2.06-2ubuntu7.2.

$ apt list --installed 'grub*'
Listing... Done
grub-common/jammy-updates,now 2.06-2ubuntu7.2 amd64 [installed]
grub-efi-amd64-bin/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 2.06-2ubuntu14.4 amd64 [installed]
grub-efi-amd64-signed/jammy-updates,jammy-security,now 1.187.6+2.06-2ubuntu14.4 amd64 [installed]
grub-gfxpayload-lists/jammy,now 0.7 amd64 [installed]
grub-pc-bin/jammy-updates,now 2.06-2ubuntu7.2 amd64 [installed]
grub-pc/jammy-updates,now 2.06-2ubuntu7.2 amd64 [installed]
grub2-common/jammy-updates,now 2.06-2ubuntu7.2 amd64 [installed]

I've tried this:

1. Uninstall Gnome Software with
   

   sudo apt purge gnome-software

2. Reinstall Gnome Software with
   

   sudo apt install gnome-software

But that didn't help.

I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.

Do you know how I can get rid of this notification, please?

[1fallen]

Hi Paddy have a look here for Jammy: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1469...d-notification

[Paddy Landau]

Thank you, @1fallen. I deleted the oddly-named file /var/lib/PackageKit/offline-update-competed, and that did the trick!

[nicolasdentremont]

Thank you, @1fallen. I deleted the oddly-named file /var/lib/PackageKit/offline-update-competed, and that did the trick!

The same thing happens to me. I have to delete that file every time I install updates through Gnome software.

[1fallen]

You could just disable it:

systemctl disable packagekit.service

More info on that here: https://www.freedesktop.org/software.../pk-intro.html

I'm glad I don't rely on GUI software anything.

[nicolasdentremont]

You could just disable it:

systemctl disable packagekit.service

More info on that here: https://www.freedesktop.org/software.../pk-intro.html

I'm glad I don't rely on GUI software anything.

I kinda want to remove it altogether. It came in when I installed (flatpak) lutris. I do most of my installing and updating through command line but I didn't want to mess up Lutris.

[1fallen]

Ibut I didn't want to mess up Lutris.

I'll have to study that one.