You SHOULD accept the updates (about 160 of them at last count, but there might be more since I last updated), and it should not cause any problems. Its not normal at all that the upgrades crashes your system, and on my not so fast system they were all installed in about 10 minutes (but I do have a fast internet connection).
I know of no way to prohibit the automatic update (except for simply not accepting them when they are offered) that as a side effect doesn't also prevent installing any new software with synaptic. Still if you are desperate, you can turn off all software sources from Ubuntu with the "software sources" manager. On Nov 23, 6:09 am, peter collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Success The new drive is working great and the install went thru fine. > However the first time I connected to the internet it immediately downloaded > about 171 updates. I figured I should install them. It took about a half hour > and promptly crashed the machine. I've spent the best part of the evening > messing around with it to no avail and in the end re-inserted the Disc and > re-installed the OS. Happily it's not informed me that it wants to update > anything again so far. But how do I make sure that it won't automatically do > an update in future? This will be my girlfriends machine and I don't want her > accepting an update and crashing the machine again. > > - Peter. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
