Ubuntu now supports temporarily / permanently disabling automatic updates of snap packages.

CTOnews.com, November 17, Canonical announced today that it allows users to temporarily or permanently disable automatic updates on snap format packages. By default, the snap package is automatically updated to ensure that your application is always up to date.

However, due to the automatic update mode of the snap package format, sometimes a certain piece of software is incompatible and can not be used. The good news is that although Canonical now allows users to disable it temporarily or permanently, it does not support graphical operations and needs to be executed on the terminal in a command-line manner.

CTOnews.com learned that, for example, if you want the snap package of the VLC Media player to temporarily disable automatic updates, you can type:

Snap refresh-- hold=72h vlc and then the output will look like this:

General refreshes of "vlc" held until 2022-11-17T12:04:59Z if you want to temporarily disable automatic updates of snap packages, the command is:

Snap refresh-- hold=48h if you want to permanently disable automatic updates of snap packages, the command is:

Snap refresh-hold