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Asked: 2014-10-27 08:21:31 +0800 CST

How to disable mediascanner-service?

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I've installed ubuntu-sdk and it depends among others on mediascanner2.0. I generally despise all such scanners/trackers and I'd like to disable it. But I can't find a way.

The config is in /usr/share/upstart/sessions/mediascanner-2.0.conf

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  1. Best Answer

    To disable for all sessions:

    sudo sh -c "echo manual >> /usr/share/upstart/sessions/mediascanner-2.0.conf"

    To disable for your user only:

    echo manual >> ~/.config/upstart/mediascanner-2.0.override
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  2. If you are sure you will not miss the "service" of mediascanner :o), just remove/purge it from installed packages:

    sudo apt-get purge mediascanner2.0

    And you can also purge the libmediascanner:

    sudo apt-get purge mediascanner2.0 libmediascanner-2.0-0

    libmediascanner comes together with mediascanner2 in Ubuntu update. It is the Access library for the mediascanner's index

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