How to turn off Software Updater pop up notification?

Question

Ubuntu 18.04. Every time I run an apt-get upgrade cycle, a "Software Updater" GUI will pop up when it's done. It doesn't seem to add anything to the process and is annoying, so I want it to stop existing.

How do I make it go away? I can't find any settings for it.

Answer 1

Try two possible options:

1. Disable from Settings -> Notifications -> Software Updater. Note there is also Settings -> Notifications -> Ubuntu Software with the same settings, I am not certain if it produces the same behavior.

   

2. At the command line, gsettings set com.ubuntu.update-notifier no-show-notifications true. You can also set it via GUI with the very useful dconf-editor (you can install it if you don't have it).

Answer 2

How to turn off Software updater? (Xubuntu)

the answer given that unchecks the Update Notifier under "Startup Applications" is the one that I would use. I had to check "show hidden" to see it...

Answer 3

Remove update-notifier

sudo apt-get remove update-notifier

Please note that, this will remove only the graphic way to do system updates.. You can still do your upgrades using commands or Synaptic.

Want To Disable/Remove Update Manager :

Open the terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run the following command to disable the Update Manager auto notification on Ubuntu systems:

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

To re-enable the Update Manager auto notification, run this command:

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch true

If you wish to remove the Update Manager package completely, run the following command:

sudo apt-get remove update-manager

And to restore it again, run:

sudo apt-get install update-manager

Uninstall update-manager To remove just update-manager package itself from Ubuntu execute on terminal:

sudo apt-get remove update-manager

Uninstall update-manager and it's dependent packages

To remove the update-manager package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get autoremove update-manager

Purging update-manager

If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of update-manager from Ubuntu then this will work:

sudo apt-get purge update-manager

To delete configuration and/or data files of update-manager and it's dependencies from Ubuntu then execute:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge update-manager

Please note that disabling Ubuntu Update Manager is not recommended. It is very important to update the Ubuntu systems at regular interval.

Answer 4

I did not actually test this with 18.04 but as long as the UpdateManager python package present in the installation I suppose it will work.

In text editor with root privileges open UpdateManager.py

sudo gedit /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py

In function UpdateManager.start_available (string # 236) insert return statement, so as the result looks like:

def start_available(self, cancelled_update=False, error_occurred=False):
    self._look_busy()
    self.refresh_cache()

    return   # <<<--- added statement

    pane = self._make_available_pane(self.cache.install_count,
                                     os.path.exists(REBOOT_REQUIRED_FILE),
                                     cancelled_update, error_occurred)
    self._start_pane(pane) 

Save the file and that will do the job.

Of course, you can easily revert it back by just removing or commenting out the return statement

I tested this with 21.10 and 22.04 although UpdateManager.start_available function body is slightly different there.

Hope it will help :-)