Automatic apt upgrades
Recently noticed the following on my daily cron output:
/etc/cron.daily/apt: Package 'mysql-common' has conffile prompt and needs to be upgraded manually
It turns out automatic upgrade of packages is turned on by default in Ubuntu LTS 12.04 Precise Pangolin!!!
So Any case, did the following to disable in file: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
Changed
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
To
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";
On Xenial
Open /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades and comment out all lines under block Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins
Uninstall unattended-upgrades
Also update /etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants/networking.service, TimeoutStartSec from 5min to 1min
Also (did this on Bionic)
systemctl disable packagekit
On Groovy
Open /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades and comment out all lines under block Unattended-Upgrade::Allowed-Origins
Uninstall unattended-upgrades
systemctl disable packagekit
Disable in file: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
Changed
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";
To
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";
cd /etc/cron.daily chmod ugo-x apt-compat chmod ugo-x update-notifier-common
Keywords: Ubuntu Initial Setup, apt-get, aptitude
