Ubuntu's software updater updates both deb packages and snaps. To my knowledge it doesn't do flatpaks, though, as Ubuntu officially doesn't support them.
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Both KDE Discover and Gnome Software offer similar functionality. You should also be able to use them without their respective shells.
Cockpit has an update manager built in and has the ability to setup dnf automatic
bauh, it has support for Debian and Arch packages (including AUR), Appimages, Flatpaks, Snaps and web apps.
Seems cool, but it's unfortunate that the project doesn't seem healthy. Last commit was 5 months ago. Furthermore, its maintainer has even explicitly mentioned that the future of its project is uncertain. At least, we gotta give them credits for being transparent.
Different software management systems can interact with Flatpak. I think the KDE package manager can, and the Gnome package manager too, if you install the plugin.
Yeah, I think it depends on how the distro decides to implement it, can't remember now but I think e. g. in Fedora KDE you need to tick a box somewhere in Discover's (KDE's updater) settings (and then it's Fedora's own Flatpak repo?). In Bazzite which I'm using atm it's Flatpaks all the way down anyway 😸
It's also quite nice in KDE that you can do Flatpak permissions etc in System Settings.
If you dont mind using the terminal, there is topgrade which can update many different kinds of packages with a single command (topgrade).
You can also build mintinstall (linux mints updater/store) on ubuntu.
topgrade is great. Distros such as bazzite use it for all of their updates, under the hood anyway.
yep very underrated piece of software, its so fast and reliable compared to like packagekit
Several distros have those kinds of utilities built in.
Synaptics Package Manager comes preinstalled in lots of Debian derivatives.
Manjaro, Bazzite, and Endeavour have their own bespoke update managers. (Others do, as well, but those are the three non-Debians I've used most recently.)
Just a heads-up: Synaptic doesn't come preinstalled on Debian or Ubuntu anymore.
It's 25 years old software, and tends to behave weirdly when you try to uninstall multiple packages.
OpenSUSE has GUI software updates via GNOME package updater or KDE discovery center, but also has GUI Yast software manager independent of DE