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This setting will stop the system from checking for ANY updates without your permission.

Change ‘Automatically check for updates’ from ‘Daily’ to ‘ Never‘.

Open the Unity Dash (16.04) or App Launcher (18.04+).

The dpkg lock and lag the auto-updater causes - usually at the most inconvenient of times - bugs me.

Whatever the reason you have, you don’t have to be bugged if you don’t want to.įor me, I manually check for and install updates through the command line every single day. Update checking can download as much as 300MB¹ over the course of a single month (depending on how which sources, archives and PPAs you have enabled). You may be trying to save bandwidth over a mobile or metered internet connection. You may be intentionally holding back on a new version of a mission critical package or app, or you may be skipping a newer kernel release or driver update. But there may be reasons why you either want to or need to control the process manually.

But you can turn off automatic software update checking on Ubuntu - and in this post we show you how.įirst things first: disabling automatic update checking is not recommended. For some, seeing automatic system update notifications appear on the desktop every day is annoying.