Howto disable package-kit package list updates?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Sep 23 17:51:13 UTC 2009


On 09/23/2009 11:13 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> About once a day, packagekit starts on my laptop and updates its package-lists.
> Beside the fact that this eats my traffic, I find it quite annoying
> because starting yum usually means a LOT of disk IO slowing down my
> system during that time.
> 
> Is there any way to disable package-kit updating its package-lists?

You didn't specify the desktop environment. Assuming it is GNOME, go to
System=> Preferences => Software Updates and change the "check for
updates" from daily to never.

Rahul




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