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Robert Sederholm
Asked: 2018-04-07 20:05:27 +0800 CST

Completely disable Ubuntu 16.04 updates Yoga 2 11

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I was just wondering how to completely disable updates on my Yoga 2 11, which has a corrupted BIOS-- I can't fix broken updates with a reinstall anymore. I was wondering specifically if there was a way to disable the commandsudo apt-get upgradeand the update manager as well. I don't want my laptop being updated at all, and I know I'll break my system or something if I update! Thanks for any and all input.

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  1. Best Answer

    In the System Settings go to Software & Updates, under "Updates" set "Automatically check for updates" to Never

    And Disable unattended upgrades: 

    sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades

    Select "no" when asked "Automatically download and install stable updates?" then select "ok".

    Instead of disabling apt-get it would be better to place a hold on packages you dont't want to get updated as shown in the answer to this question:

    How to prevent updating of a specific package?

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