Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?

[Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>]

Hi Greg,

> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 8:58 PM
> 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?
>
> tasksel will also perform an autoremove for you without asking you.
> It was after this happened to me that I investigated how to disable
> apt's autoremove feature.
>

Thanks for your observation about tasksel and autoremove.

About the only time that I encountered tasksel was during the installation of Debian.

Since you mentioned tasksel in your reply, how do you invoke tasksel? Do you just type tasksel in a terminal?