apparmor has been deleted, but I still get warnings of “important updates” that flash on my screen. I want to stop it.
I’m confused.
AppArmor doesn’t have anything to do with zypper, PackageKit, YaST or the Update mechanisms that Leap use.
So if apparmor is not significant, what produces the momentary warnings that disappear after a few seconds? I tried to identify it using top but it doesn’t show.
AppArmor is very significant. But it’s got nothing to do with updates.
From AppArmor - Wikipedia
AppArmor (“Application Armor”) is a Linux kernel security module that allows the system administrator to restrict programs’ capabilities with per-program profiles. Profiles can allow capabilities like network access, raw socket access, and the permission to read, write, or execute files on matching paths.
If you’ve “removed” AppArmor, without replacing it with something like SELinux or some other sort of security mechanism, you’ve basically gutted the security on your machine.
I understand your caution, and I appreciate the risks, but I don’t care. But you diverse. The question is how to get rid of that important update warning that lasts about seven seconds.
I haven’t a clue what “Important Update” warning you’re talking about. I don’t know what in AppArmor would possibly be giving you any sort of warning like that.
A small window pops up in the lower right of the screen announcing available software updates, some of them important. Some other member might have experienced them. Thanks for trying to help.
Sounds like this could be KDE packagekit related. Are you using KDE Desktop Environment?
Yes, KDE Plasma Version 6.2.0
KDE Frameworks Version 6.6.0
Qt Version 6.7.3
I’m using Wayland if it matters.
Here is some information on dealing with packagekit if it is desired to disable it.
Deinstallation of packagekit =
Removed Packages: 4
discover6-backend-packagekit, PackageKit, PackageKit-backend-zypp, PackageKit-branding-openSUSE
I’d recommend disabling and/or removing discover6-backend-packagekit and adding a lock to it to prevent it from installing in the future. Especially if you intend to have any 3rd-party repos from openSUSE. If you maintain ONLY openSUSE standard repos, it should be “fine”.
And Discover uses PackageKit, YaST does not.
-Best Regards
@ionmich The update notification is coming from the package discover6-notifier. So simply deleting this package will suffice.
Or when the update notification appears, right click into a free space of the notification area of the taskbar and set the Discover Update notifier to “Show never”.
Removing complete packagekit is unecessary.
@ionmich Sorry, due to the hijacking of this thread by lawrh, i thaught you are already on Plasma 6. But Leap 15.6 still uses Plasma 5 and the update notification there is produced by the package plasma5-pk-updates. After uninstallation, the update notification will be gone.
hui, if you do not completely remove packagekit it can and sometimes does interfere with zypper dup upgrade procedure.
-Greatest Hopes!
This is FUD which is often repeated by some (unexperienced) users. When you start your computer, packagekit checks for updates. Only in this few seconds you can’t use zypper at the same time as both processes would access the same ressources. Packagekit works flawlessly on all machines and any “interfering” is solved by waiting 5 seconds until packagekit has done the update checks before invoking zypper or YaST Software.
I do not know what that means FUD. It lasts longer than 5 seconds on slower machines. Either way it’s a minor preference I think.
You do know what a search engine is for, right?
Yes, my apologies. Thank you for your insight on this also.
Sorry, but are you a mind reader? How can you answer a question that was asked to @ionmich ?
Using XFCE.
ion@localhost:~> sudo zypper se discover6-notifier
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
No matching items found.
ion@localhost:~>