Turning OFF Update Notifier

[maxie]

I have always had my updates automatically downloaded when new ones are available. It always did this in the background, at night or I never even noticed it downloading.

Now, whenever I start my machine, i.e. opening the laptop lid in the morning, Update Notifier checks for updates and if it finds any it downloads them. Great! you say? Well, not on my 256kb internet.

I must kill apt to do anything internet. I've now had to do this nearly every day. Especially with constant updates to Jaunty.

How do I make it do what "I" want? How do I change it's behavior?

[flarson]

Re: Turning OFF Update Notifier

I am not sure what was doing this for you before, but update-notifier only notifies you of updates. The actual updating is done from cron. If you run
cat /etc/crontab
You will see that it run the cron.daily scripts at 6:25 AM by default. One of those
/etc/cron.daily/apt, does the updating. So if youwant the updating to happen earlier edit /etc/crontab. If you want apt to actually download the available upgrades you have to work with apt.conf, in particular you have to set Periodic:ownload-Upgradeable-Packages.

[Rog131]

Re: Turning OFF Update Notifier

Automatic updates

Package managers (> FAQ: Package Managers) have:

Adept > Sources > Edit Software Sources -> "Software Sources" pops up > Updates-tab: Automatic updates

Synaptic > Settings > Repositories > -> "Software Sources" pops up > Updates-tab: Automatic updates

KPackageKit > Settings > Edit Software Sources -> "Software Sources" pops up > Updates-tab: Automatic updates

That "Software Sources" is a gui: software-properties-kde / software-properties-gtk

manage the repositories that you install software from

This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories.
It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software
vendor software sources.

Fast lane: Alt+F2 & kdesudo software-properties-kde


What do you have at the "Automatic updates" ?



Auto update (& upgrade)

Earlier:

> Topic: Auto Update
> Topic: How to schedule adept package updates

[maxie]

Re: Turning OFF Update Notifier

Thank you all for the input.
Yes, I have it setup so it downloads available packages.
But it annoys me that it wants to download the packages just when I don't want it to, like first thing in the morning.

I was hoping someone would say " It's supposed to stop downloading when the machine is being used and download after 20 minutes of inactivity or when the machine is not being used.

Not to worry. I'll have a look at cron files and config files etc. Or I'll get used to it.
Thanks again.

[flarson]

Re: Turning OFF Update Notifier

Changing cron is not that hard. You might want to make a copy of /etc/crontab before editing, just to be safe. The line you are interested in looks like this
25 6 * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
The columns are
m h dom mon dow user command
so it says
25 minutes 6th hour every day of every month of every year.
Change the 6 to 2 and it will run at 2:25 AM.