Re: Timer doing apt update

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

Le 20/02/2024 à 12:46, Andy Smith a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 08:52:09AM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> > I use KDE, and I do not know wether discover does an update by itself. I do
> > not thind any setting about this
> I think it is very likely that KDE has an equivalent to GNOME, which
> does the equivalent of "apt update" every day and then notifies you
> about available package upgrades.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
Yes, and it seems to be plasma-discover. But I do noit find how to 
configure it NOT to update package list automatically.

A systemctl --user list-units '*discover*'  gives
 UNIT                                                        LOAD 
  ACTIVE SUB     DESCRIPTION
 app-org.kde.discover-5f3c6a37712a431b929cbe82aa9555dc.scope loaded 
active running Discover - Logithèque
 app-org.kde.discover.notifier@autostart.service             loaded 
active running Discover

a list-unit-files says the service is generated. I did nit find from 
what it os generated.

There is /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.discover.notifier.desktop


which ends in


Exec=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/DiscoverNotifier
Icon=system-software-update
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1
OnlyShowIn=KDE

DiscoverNotifier comes form the plasma-discover package

The pacakge contains a /usr/bin/plasma-discover-update binary, whose 
name appears in DiscoverNotifier binary...


I'll try looking this way.


I would have preferred being able to disable it (especially because it 
shows me a systray indication when there are upgradable packages) but if 
it is not possible I can remove it (it won't remove the meta-packages of 
the DE)