[Aptitude-devel] Bug#816349: aptitude: cannot seem to disable automatic download of updates

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi,

2016-03-01 02:21 Fulano Diego Perez:
>
>there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf by default as far as im aware in debian
>stretch
>
>what else needs to be done in order to disable this ?
>
>is there a gnome package manager possibly interfering ?
>
>its very frustrating on a limited bandwidth connection each time a usb
>modem, for example, is connected ...

aptitude doesn't run automatically.

Maybe it is run by other programs installed in the system, like
unattended-upgrades, cron-apt or apticron?

This will tell you about installed packages in your system that depend
on apt or aptitude, that might be causing this:

  aptitude search '~i~D(^aptitude$|^apt$)'


If you find the reason, please write again to this bug report.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>