Hi Greg By the way, is there a method to suppression notification of new software and/or security updates? (I assume that if I can receive notifications of software/security updates, it means that my OS is communicating with Debian servers in the background, without my knowledge. I don't like that.)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 4:51 AM > From: "Greg Wooledge" <g...@wooledge.org> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:48:06PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Thanks Kenneth for your reply. > > > > Your suggestion that I "apt-get purge unattended-upgrades" is intended to > > be a one-off operation or must I perform it each time I log into my OS? > > > > And yes, I manually perform "sudo apt update" and "sudo apt upgrade" about > > twice a day. > > > Anything you do with apt-get, apt or dpkg (or any other package management > tool) is permanent. > > The only things in this realm that *aren't* permanent are stopping or > starting a service, e.g. "systemctl stop foobar". Those operations do > not affect the state of the system at the next boot. (For that, you > would use enable, disable, mask, or unmask, all of which are permanent.) > >
