Disable Automatic Unattended Updates on Kali Linux 2016

[HoneyFairy]

Hello Ladies and Gentleman

I am using Kali Linux 2016 32 bit.
How do I disable automatic updates?
(Internet data is precious for me)

Thank you
JennyB



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[hannibal2009]

Seconding this...

I'm running Kali Rolling on a HDD install. (One is a fresh 2016.1 install of Kali Rolling, the other is an update from Kali Sana to Rolling).

I'm not entirely certain the rolling updates are working. I can run apt-get update and see updates pending, but I don't see any other notifications elsewhere in the system. Are the automatic notifications done through apt (apt.conf.d/cron.daily) or elsewhere?

Thanks in advance!

[hannibal2009]

HoneyFairy - it looks like if you run gpk-prefs, you can disable sources that packagekit uses to check for updates.

This doesn't change /etc/apt/sources.list, so you can still run apt-get update/upgrade later... but appears like it should stop the automatic updates from packagekit.