How can I disable automatic updates in Fedora 10?

joe.pelayo · #1 16th December 2008, 08:11 PM

Hello everybody.

Tonight at last I got around to install Fedora 10 x86_64 in my main laptop, and since I had had a good experience with the beta release I expected this to be smooth as well.

There is only one thing I want to change in Fedora 10, and that is to disable the automatic update feature (PackageKit?). It was previously pretty simple to disable pup and be done, but now I can not find PackageKit anywhere to disable it.

It is not that I don't want to get updates any more, but what I want is to CONTROL the way updates are installed (as well as the timings) and for that I want to use YUMEX (which now complains something else is on the way).

Thanks.
Joe.

Sauron · #2 16th December 2008, 08:13 PM

I don't believe that any updates are automatically applied a-la Windows. PackageKit gets the list of updates that are avaialble every so often, but nothing is installed.

Otto42 · #3 16th December 2008, 08:41 PM

System->Preferences->System->Software Updates. Set it up however you like.

ryptyde · #4 16th December 2008, 11:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Otto42

System->Preferences->System->Software Updates. Set it up however you like.

or System>Preferences>Personal>Sessions and then uncheck the box for "PackageKit Update Applet" and that will stop the updater from automatically looking for packages.

joe.pelayo · #5 17th December 2008, 03:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryptyde

or System>Preferences>Personal>Sessions and then uncheck the box for "PackageKit Update Applet" and that will stop the updater from automatically looking for packages.

That's the one I wanted to use!

Thanks.
Joe.

amitprabhakar · #6 14th April 2009, 05:21 PM

On KDE4 you can go to System Settings -> Add and remove softwares -> Updates ->Settings

Hope that'll work for you.

cola · #7 14th April 2009, 05:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by amitprabhakar

On KDE4 you can go to System Settings -> Add and remove softwares -> Updates ->Settings

Hope that'll work for you.

Thanks.
I was searching this.

jhhaynes · #8 26th July 2009, 01:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ryptyde

or System>Preferences>Personal>Sessions and then uncheck the box for "PackageKit Update Applet" and that will stop the updater from automatically looking for packages.

Thank you. I had previously tried System>Preferences>System>Software Updates and
setting it to Never, but it was still starting up. Looks like your directions will take care of
it.

xucaen · #9 25th February 2010, 01:57 PM

that piece of ***** just killed my battery. thanks.

xucaen · #10 26th February 2010, 11:32 PM

System>Preferences>Software Updates seems to do nothing.
System>Preferences>Personal>Sessions does not exist.

I found the checkbox under System>Preferences>Startup Applications.