How do I enable or disable Apport?

Question

The system crash dialog is annoying me, how can I turn it off? I'd also like to know how to turn it back on just in case I need it to report a problem.

Answer 1

you need to edit /etc/default/apport

# Graphical
gksu gedit /etc/default/apport

or

# Command line
sudo nano /etc/default/apport

Change enabled from "0" to a "1" so it looks like this:

enabled=1    

To turn it off make it:

enabled=0

to turn it off at boot, and then turn it off with a sudo service apport stop

See also :

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#A4._Collect_information_about_the_bug

Answer 2

• Click on ubuntu icon, search for "System settings"
• Select Privacy > Diagnostics tab
• Unlock
• Tick "Send error reports to Canonical"

Answer 3

sudo service apport stop ; sudo sed -ibak -e s/^enabled\=1$/enabled\=0/ /etc/default/apport ; sudo mv /etc/default/apportbak ~

The above script should stop apport, then take a backup of its configuration file, disable apport on boot, and lastly moves the backup to your home directory

HTH