Remove Updated Software Notification on 20.04.2 LTS

Newuser80

1/19/23, 6:21 AM

Pop - Up "Updated Software is available for this computer. Do you want to install now"Here is the image

I have set the updater to Never
I have disabled the notification
I have tried the "pkill update-notifier"
sudo systemctl disable apt-update-daily.service and timer disabled to "0"

Can some one help to remove the notification completely?

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20.04

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Ubuntu

N0rbert

1/19/23, 8:38 AM

Warning: the below answer disables update popups, this may end with lower security level for your system. Continue only if you are sure.

To disable update-notifier popup on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS use the following commands:

# disable cron jobs for Update Notifier
sudo chmod -x /etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common
sudo chmod -x /etc/cron.weekly/update-notifier-common

# disable graphical Update Notifier application
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart/
cp /etc/xdg/autostart/update-notifier.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

grep -q "^X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop && sed -i "s/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=true/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false/" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop || echo "X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false" >> ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop

and then reboot.

To disable update-notifier popup on Ubuntu 21.04 use the following commands:

# disable cron jobs for Update Notifier
sudo systemctl disable update-notifier-download.timer
sudo systemctl disable update-notifier-motd.timer

# disable graphical Update Notifier application
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart/
cp /etc/xdg/autostart/update-notifier.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

grep -q "^X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop && sed -i "s/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=true/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false/" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop || echo "X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false" >> ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop

and then reboot.

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vanadium

1/19/23, 10:47 AM

The question is indeed for 20.04, but maybe it is good to also explicitly repeat that in your answer. In 21.04 it is probably a systemd service instead of a cron job.

N0rbert

1/19/23, 11:31 AM

OP wants 20.04, but I have added 21.04 as useful addition. Thanks!

vanadium

1/19/23, 8:56 PM

I know OP specifies 20.04, but in the future, other users will bump on this. Anyway, you took it one step further and now even made the answer future proof!

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Remove Updated Software Notification on 20.04.2 LTS

TH: ลบการแจ้งเตือนซอฟต์แวร์ที่อัปเดตใน 20.04.2 LTS

RO: Eliminați notificarea software actualizată pe 20.04.2 LTS

RU: Удалить уведомление об обновлении программного обеспечения 20.04.2 LTS

VI: Xóa thông báo phần mềm cập nhật trên 20.04.2 LTS

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