GNOME Software asks to reboot whenever I have system updates. I don’t like PackageKit’s update mechanism because doing the updates offline is usually an unnecessary inconvenience. Especially when you have full-disk encryption. Any way I can disable offline updates and have GNOME Software use zypper update behind the scenes instead?
You can use simply zypper dup instead.
GNOME Software only supports offline updates by design. It does use zypper dup (not zupper update) behind the scene. How the packages are installed is not related to when these packages are installed.
PackageKit supports both online and offline updates. Do not blame the messenger.
I’m a bit confused. zypper dup is an online update mechanism. You’re saying that:
GNOME Software only supports offline updates by design.
But also:
It does use
zypper dup
is it possible to use GNOME Software to install updates without reboot or not?
No. zypper dup just installs packages. You can invoke it when booted into standard multi-user of graphical target or you can invoke it when booted into special update target. zypper dup itself does not care.
Okay, I think I see where you’re coming from. You meant that GNOME Software only supports an offline install that invokes zypper dup behind the scenes.
My offline system upgrade via both Software and Discover started to fail after the 5th successful upgrade.
Zypper dup is the only reliable update method for tumbleweed period. Any other “updating” software may or may not work it is a crapshoot.
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