Disable automatic download of updates

jd1008 jd1008 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 20:47:53 UTC 2014


On 10/17/2014 11:50 PM, John Tall wrote:
> Hello.
>
> After installing the Fedora 21 Alpha with GNOME I've found that the 
> system now downloads updates automatically and notifies me when they 
> are ready to be installed. This is a very handy feature, but from what 
> I can tell it looks like the packages are downloaded automatically in 
> the background. I'm often on a mobile hotspot and don't have the 
> capacity to download sometimes hundreds of megabytes of packages. How 
> do I disable the automatic download in Fedora 21?
>
> John
>
>

You have a package installed called:
yum-updatesd-0.9-15.fc20.noarch

You have the option of disabling it or removing it.
To disable it:
sudo systemctl disable yum-updatesd

To remove it:

sudo rpm -e yum-updatesd




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