How to stop updates notifier daemon on Intrepid 8.10

[Jonas Norlander]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Nigel Henry
<cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> wrote:
> I have  a bunch of distro's installed, and being on dialup, like to save
> bandwidth.
>
> When I fire up Kubuntu Intrepid, some daemon is started which phones home to
> get notifications of  available updates. This was verified when I tried to
> run "apt-get update", and was told that there was an active lock on accessing
> the file. I tried again, when gkrellm showed the incoming traffic had
> stopped, then "apt-get update" ran ok.
>
> I've looked in synaptic, and packagekit is not installed, update manager
> doesn't show any references to update daemons in it's installed packages, and
> kde doesn't show anything either.
>
> Looked in KDE's system settings > service manager, and can't see anything
> there, unless I'm missing something.
>
> Also Looked in sysv-rc-conf, but nothing resembling an updates daemon is
> there.
>
> Just booted Ubuntu Intrepid for comparison, and that is also searching for
> updates, but there is an applet icon for it in the top taskbar. Right
> clicking on that gives a drop down menu, then clicking preferences, then
> updates, there is a checkbox "Check for updates", which I'm just about to
> uncheck, but on Kubuntu Intrepid, there isn't even an applet icon that I can
> right click on to stop this checking for updates on bootup.
>
> Anyone any idea where else I might look to stop what appears to be an updates
> notifier daemon?
>
> All a bit bizarre.
>
> Nigel.
>

In the settings for Adept you can enable or disable the check for updates.

/ Jonas