Hi > Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2021 at 9:39 PM > From: "Reco" <recovery...@enotuniq.net> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: How do I permanently disable unattended downloads of > software/security updates? > As you can see from the screenshot, my OS has surreptitiously downloaded software/security updates without my manual intervention. This behavior is not what I like and it's the subject of my original post.
> > The devil is in the details, as they say. > "sudo apt upgrade" shows that it does not need to download anything, > because: > > > > username@localhost:~$ sudo apt upgrade > ... > > > Need to get 0 B/20.2 MB of archives. > Exactly. The notification about software updates being available was the first thing that popped up on my OS (see screenshot: https://ibb.co/5xP7r5t). This was confirmed by the message "Need to get 0 B/20.2 MB of archives". > I'm curious what will be shown in this configuration by: > > apt-config dump | grep Periodic > One kind person has already asked me for the output of apt-config dump | grep -i APT::Periodic Below is the output of the above command: APT::Periodic ""; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";
