Comments on Ubuntu on the Dell Mini: Remove The Pop-Up Update Manager

They're not going to show up for Karmic. I'...

2009-12-09T22:14:02.460-06:00

They're not going to show up for Karmic. I'm sure you could write a script but I'm not going to.

Same here for Karmic... Thanks for all of your he...

2009-12-09T22:11:27.461-06:00

Same here for Karmic...

Thanks for all of your help!

This works great on Jaunty, but only partly in Kar...

2009-11-27T03:11:58.905-06:00

This works great on Jaunty, but only partly in Karmic. I reran this after my clean install of 9.10, and the Update Manager doesn't auto-load, but the updates also don't show up in notify-osd like it did in Jaunty.
Thoughts? I'm a huge fan of the gorgeous notifier system.

did it work? I doubt this fixed your problem, it s...

2009-07-03T10:54:51.354-05:00

did it work? I doubt this fixed your problem, it seems alot more complex then not having the window appear.

On my system, this update-manager behavior acts li...

2009-07-03T03:38:35.684-05:00

On my system, this update-manager behavior acts like a random race condition. It locks up my machine and forces me to restart X every single time, approaching twice a day.

I hope
gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false
makes my OS reliable again.

Thanks for the tip! Actually I thought update man...

2009-06-02T06:16:45.289-05:00

Thanks for the tip!

Actually I thought update manager poping up like that is some kind of bug - it is very strange they decided to change it that way...