Thread: Disable automatic update check?
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jacktanner is offline jacktanner
2010-08-16 , 16:32
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Originally Posted by furgious View Post
Does anyone have details on how to do actually do this? Im a complete noob at this kinda thing but it pisses me off a lot when it wastes my internet usage.
Open X-Terminal. Paste in this command:
Code:
gconftool -s --type int /apps/hildon/update-notifier/check_interval 4294967295
Press enter.

This doesn't completely turn off automatic updates, just makes them very infrequent. (4294967295 is the number of minutes between automatic updates.)

If the above doesn't work, you might need to become root (administrator) first. Install the rootsh package from extras, and then execute this command in X-terminal before the gconftool command above:

Code:
sudo gainroot
 

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