Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?
Hi Greg
By the way, is there a method to suppression notification of new software and/or security updates? (I assume that if I can receive notifications of software/security updates, it means that my OS is communicating with Debian servers in the background, without my knowledge. I don't like that.)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 4:51 AM
> From: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: 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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