Bug#711500: how can non-expert user prevent these dialogues?

[Alad Wenter]

Hi,

I've used packagekit-gnome on Wheezy 7.3 on and off, both for XFCE and 
MATE, and got this error recently (I had update-manager before and 
purged it). Removing aptdaemon seems to have solved it for me.

The contents of my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "0";

Worst-case you could try "software settings" and set "check for updates" 
to "Never" ...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 
'stable'), (50, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backe  0.12.1-3
ii  gnome-packagekit-data                     3.4.2-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3+deb7u3
ii  libatk1.0-0                               2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                     2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcairo-gobject2                         1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                                 1.12.2-3
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                        0.28-6
ii  libcanberra0                              0.28-6
ii  libdbus-1-3                               1.6.8-1+deb7u1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                          0.100.2-1
ii  libfontconfig1                            2.9.0-7.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                        2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                              2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk-3-0                                3.4.2-7
ii  libnotify4                                0.7.5-1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                    0.7.6-3
ii  libpango1.0-0                             1.30.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                              3.7.13-1+deb7u1
ii  libupower-glib1                           0.9.17-1
ii  libx11-6                                  2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  packagekit                                0.7.6-3