hi Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > Hi, > > 2016-03-01 02:21 Fulano Diego Perez: >> >> there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf by default as far as im aware in debian >> stretch >> >> what else needs to be done in order to disable this ? >> >> is there a gnome package manager possibly interfering ? >> >> its very frustrating on a limited bandwidth connection each time a usb >> modem, for example, is connected ... > > aptitude doesn't run automatically. > > Maybe it is run by other programs installed in the system, like > unattended-upgrades, cron-apt or apticron?
anacron ? it is installed > > This will tell you about installed packages in your system that depend > on apt or aptitude, that might be causing this: > > aptitude search '~i~D(^aptitude$|^apt$)' i apt-listchanges - package change history notification tool i apt-utils - package management related utility programs i python-reportbug - Python modules for interacting with bug tracking systems i reportbug - reports bugs in the Debian distribution i tasksel - tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems > > > If you find the reason, please write again to this bug report. not yet unfortunately > > > Cheers.
