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hikaricore
Apr 22, 2015Aspirant
Disable Updates
How do I go about disabling updates? I'm comfortable with they system running exactly as is and have it safely confined to my local home network where security will not be an issue. Every single tim...
hikaricore
Apr 24, 2015Aspirant
Yup, this is the exact kind of thing I run into everytime I update any system I own.
Sure there are great new things, and every possibility of something going wrong.
Usually everything is fine, othertimes I end up having to SSH into a system and force reinstall GRUB or some non-sense.
I'd just rather avoid it and not have the popup every single time I load the interface.
Making updates mandatory, atleast in the sense of nagging dialogs, isn't ever a good idea.
Sure there are great new things, and every possibility of something going wrong.
Usually everything is fine, othertimes I end up having to SSH into a system and force reinstall GRUB or some non-sense.
I'd just rather avoid it and not have the popup every single time I load the interface.
Making updates mandatory, atleast in the sense of nagging dialogs, isn't ever a good idea.
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