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

[Fulano Diego Perez]

hi

Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
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> Hi,
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> 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?

anacron ?

it is installed

> 
> 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$|^apt$)'

i   apt-listchanges                                                    -
package change history notification tool

i   apt-utils                                                          -
package management related utility programs

i   python-reportbug                                                   -
Python modules for interacting with bug tracking systems

i   reportbug                                                          -
reports bugs in the Debian distribution

i   tasksel                                                            -
tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems

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

not yet unfortunately

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> 
> Cheers.