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D. Ktt
Asked: 2016-04-24 07:47:48 +0800 CST

How to disable avahi-daemon in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

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How to disable avahi-daemon in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? I have tried

sudo sh -c "echo 'manual'>/etc/init/avahi-daemon.override"

but seems it does not work.

And how to disable cups-browsed? I have tried

sudo sh -c "echo 'manual'>/etc/init/cups-browsed.override"

but seems it does not work.

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3 Answers

  1. Since 16.04 is a systemd system, you need to do

    sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket
sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service

    Also, the cups-browsed.service "Wants" avahi to start, so you'll either have to disable that, too, or comment out the line in /lib/systemd/system/cups-browsed.service:

    Wants=avahi-daemon.service

    Then you don't need to uninstall anything.

    This won't take effect until reboot, but you can do

    sudo systemctl stop avahi-daemon.socket
sudo systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service

    If you want to stop it right away.

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  2. After trying a couple of things, the one wich worked for me was

    apt-get remove avahi-daemon
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  3. I have tried 

    update-rc.d -f avahi-daemon remove  
echo manual > /etc/init/avahi-daemon.override
systemctl disable avahi-daemon
systemctl disable avahi-service

    but still avahi-daemon came up after reboot.
    So I ended up with
    apt-get purge avahi-daemon

    which finally solved the problem for me.

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