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

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Stella Ashburne wrote: 
> As you can see from the screenshot, my OS has surreptitiously downloaded software/security updates without my manual intervention. This behavior is not what I like and it's the subject of my original post.
> 
> >
> > The devil is in the details, as they say.
> > "sudo apt upgrade" shows that it does not need to download anything,
> > because:
> >
> > > > username@localhost:~$ sudo apt upgrade
> > ...
> > > > Need to get 0 B/20.2 MB of archives.
> >
> Exactly. The notification about software updates being available was the first thing that popped up on my OS (see screenshot: https://ibb.co/5xP7r5t). This was confirmed by the message "Need to get 0 B/20.2 MB of archives".
> 
> > I'm curious what will be shown in this configuration by:
> >
> > apt-config dump | grep Periodic
> >
> One kind person has already asked me for the output of
> 
> apt-config dump | grep -i APT::Periodic
> 
> Below is the output of the above command:
> 
> APT::Periodic "";
> APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
> APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";

This really looks like something being done by your desktop
system rather than at the OS level.

Fire up dconf-editor, look at org.gnome.software, and see if
"download-updates" is checked. If so, uncheck it.

-dsr-