How to disable automatic updates (10.3)?

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#1

Hi,

Given 10.3 has just been discontinued, there won’t be any more updates. But I can’t find how to disable automatic updates… According to the manual, the applet config should offer an “automatically start updater on login” checkbox, but mine doesn’t (Gnome).

I couldn’t find in Yast either.

Thanks in advance.

#2

Yast Software repositories

Just Disable it

#3

What a light-speed answer :slight_smile:

Disable what? I still want to be able to install new software!

#4

JUst disable the opensuse updater in the tray.
Right click, configure. Uncheck 'automatically start at launch"
and then ok out of it. Right click on the icon again and select
quit. Done.

#5

Thanks, but did you fully read my first message?

“According to the manual, the applet config should offer an “automatically start updater on login” checkbox, but mine doesn’t (Gnome).”

#6

> (Gnome)."

Ah, this is the part I didn’t catch.
Sorry, using Gnome that is what I would
expect from it. It’s obviously too confusing
to have a tick box to turn it off.

Maybe a Gnome person can guide you.

#7

You can
Just disable the repos

#8

If I disable the repos, I’ll have to enable them back each time I want to install a package, thus caching them again which takes much time.

BTW, I found this in /etc/sysconfig/sw_management:

Path: System/Yast2

Description: Preferred package update stack if both installed

Type: string(zlm,opensuse)

Default: zlm

set to “opensuse” to use opensuse_updater as preferred update applet

set to “zlm” to use zen-updater as preferred update applet

PREFERRED_SW_MANAGER_STACK=“zlm”

and I wondered which one the manual is referring to. But I couldn’t find either zlm or zen-updater in the repos.

#9

You said:

Either you disable the updater applet from starting, something I always did anyway. Or you take out the **Update **channel - Then you’ll not get any. But Updates for 10.3 has ended hasn’t it?

#10

And how to do this is precisely the point of this thread!

I found it finally: I uninstalled the opensuse-updater package! Sounds so obvious afterwards…

But Updates for 10.3 has ended hasn’t it?

Yes but the updater still runs at login (and of course says the system is up-to-date!).

#11

> I found it finally: I uninstalled the opensuse-updater package!

That’ll certainly turn it off. LOL.

You see though the idiotic things Gnome does.
Turn simple things into monumental pains in the 242,
all in the name of ‘usability’…which in fact is
a codename for unconfigurable. Worthless.

#12

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:06:02 GMT, llevrel
<llevrel@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>caf4926;2080411 Wrote:
>> Just disable the repos
>
>If I disable the repos, I’ll have to enable them back each time I want
>to install a package, thus caching them again which takes much time.
>
>BTW, I found this in /etc/sysconfig/sw_management:
>## Path: System/Yast2
>## Description: Preferred package update stack if both
>installed
>## Type: string(zlm,opensuse)
>## Default: zlm
># set to “opensuse” to use opensuse_updater as preferred update applet
># set to “zlm” to use zen-updater as preferred update applet
>PREFERRED_SW_MANAGER_STACK=“zlm”
>
>and I wondered which one the manual is referring to. But I couldn’t
>find either zlm or zen-updater in the repos.

Not to put too blunt a point on it, what repos where? I think only
update is still up, if it still is.

#13

No 10.3 repos are up at opensuse.org. But fortunately 10.3 users still have a few mirrors where to find packages!