I would like to use only DNF for updates, but Gnome Software just told me I have updates, so I assume it is doing this automatically. How can I turn this off?
I found some old posts on the topic, but they are so old I am worried they are out of date... things change fast around here!
According to this askubuntu post you could try disabling gnome-software's automatic downloading of updates:
gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false
The description of that key reads:
If enabled, GNOME Software automatically downloads updates in the background and prompts the user to install them when ready.
My advice, if you want to disable Gnome Software, is to disable PackageKit, the service that fires Gnome Software. Simply mask the service:
systemctl mask packagekit.service
You can control PackageKit, the backend that Gnome Software uses, with the pkcon command (man pkcon) - if you do so, don't mask the service first.
If you want to know about stopping/disabling/masking a service unit, check out this article on Fedora Magazine - it explains it well.
Asked: 2016-08-23 04:42:47 -0600
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I think the Gnome-Software-Center periodically does a
dnf check-updateand tells you if there are updated packages in your enabled repositories. But it definetely doesn't do adnf updatewithout your permission.@jake Gnome Software uses PackageKit as its backend, not dnf. So it runs a
pkcon refreshorpkcon refresh forceto update its package metadata. If you click on Update in Gnome Software, it runs something likepkcon update...