hi Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: > Hi, > > 2016-03-02 3:51 GMT+00:00 Fulano Diego Perez <[email protected]>: >> hi >> >> Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo: >>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo >>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> 2016-03-01 02:21 Fulano Diego Perez: >>>> >>>> there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf by default as far as im aware in debian >>>> stretch >>>> >>>> what else needs to be done in order to disable this ? >>>> >>>> is there a gnome package manager possibly interfering ?
found gnome-software in dconf; see attachment now removed this was installed without my intervention after 2-3 days without automatic downloading i would conclude this was the culprit >>>> >>>> its very frustrating on a limited bandwidth connection each time a usb >>>> modem, for example, is connected ... >>> >>> aptitude doesn't run automatically. >>> >>> Maybe it is run by other programs installed in the system, like >>> unattended-upgrades, cron-apt or apticron? >> >> anacron ? >> >> it is installed > > anacron is similar to cron, just runs tasks at a given time. it's not > related to aptitude or apt updates per-se. > > However, there's this from "man apt.conf", but Axel already told you about > this: > > PERIODIC AND ARCHIVES OPTIONS > APT::Periodic and APT::Archives groups of options configure > behavior of apt periodic updates, which is done by the > /etc/cron.daily/apt script. See the top of > this script for the brief documentation of these options. > > > Other than that, I think that as Axel said, aptitude doesn't really > have anything to do with automatic updates, so it must be a problem > with other package managers / tools that you have installed, like > appstream or packagekit that you mention in other messages. > > I never used them, so I don't have much to say about that, but it's > probably better if you ask in debian-user mailing lists, > http://ask.debian.net/ or similar forums. > > >>> This will tell you about installed packages in your system that depend >>> on apt or aptitude, that might be causing this: >>> >>> aptitude search '~i~D(^aptitude$|^apt$)' >> >> i apt-listchanges - >> i apt-utils - >> i python-reportbug - >> i reportbug - >> i tasksel - > > Those don't seem to be related, no. > > > Cheers. >
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