Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:48:06PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> Thanks Kenneth for your reply.
>
> Your suggestion that I "apt-get purge unattended-upgrades" is intended to be a one-off operation or must I perform it each time I log into my OS?
>
> And yes, I manually perform "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt upgrade" about twice a day.
Anything you do with apt-get, apt or dpkg (or any other package management
tool) is permanent.
The only things in this realm that *aren't* permanent are stopping or
starting a service, e.g. "systemctl stop foobar". Those operations do
not affect the state of the system at the next boot. (For that, you
would use enable, disable, mask, or unmask, all of which are permanent.)
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