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

[Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>]

Hi Andrei

> Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 at 3:06 PM
> From: "Andrei POPESCU" <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of software/security updates?
>
> aptitude was deprecated for some very specific uses only (in particular
> dist-upgrades), not because it couldn't do them, but because APT found
> better solutions. It also didn't help that development of aptitude was
> stopped for a while.

Yeah, I remember somewhat clearly that someone in www.reddit.com/r/debian advised me to use "sudo apt upgrade" instead of aptitude because with the former, I can see the green-colored progress bar during the installation of packages.

>
> In this particular case, apt doesn't have a 'why' command, hence the
> suggestion to use aptitude instead.
>

Thanks for your advice and time. I really appreciate it.

Best regards.