GNOME Software

GNOME Software
Initial releaseSeptember 25, 2013 (2013-09-25)[3]
Stable release
45.3[4] Edit this on Wikidata / 5 January 2024 (5 January 2024)
Repository
Written inC
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeApp store, Digital distribution
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteapps.gnome.org/en-GB/app/org.gnome.Software/

GNOME Software is a utility for installing applications and updates on Linux. It is part of the GNOME Core Applications, and was introduced in GNOME 3.10.[3]

It is the GNOME front-end to the PackageKit, in turn a front-end to several package management systems, which include systems based on both RPM and DEB.

The program is used to add and manage software repositories as well as Ubuntu Personal Package Archives (PPA). Ubuntu replaced its previous Ubuntu Software Center program with GNOME Software starting with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS,[5] and re-branded it as "Ubuntu Software".

It also supports fwupd for servicing of system firmware.[6]

GNOME Software removed Snap support in July 2019, due to code quality issues, lack of integration (specifically, the user can't tell what snap is doing after they click "install" and that it generally ignores GNOME's settings), and the fact that it competes with the GNOME-supported Flatpak standard.[7]

  1. ^ "app icon: more colorful bag (!569) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-software". GitLab. Archived from the original on 2021-08-16. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  2. ^ "NEWS · main · GNOME / Gnome-software". Archived from the original on 2022-11-14. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  3. ^ a b "GNOME 3.10 Released!". GNOME. 25 September 2013. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
  4. ^ https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/tags/45.3. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. ^ "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will dump the Ubuntu Software Center for GNOME Software". PC World. Archived from the original on 2018-03-25. Retrieved 2023-01-11.
  6. ^ "fwupd: Simple, Open-Source Device Firmware Updating". Phoronix. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2015.
  7. ^ "GNOME Software Moving Forward With Disabling Snap Plugin - Phoronix". www.phoronix.com. Archived from the original on 2020-07-19. Retrieved 2020-07-19.

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