update-notifier-kde

[O. Sinclair]

Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On 7/10-2009 10:44 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 08:19 +0200, Thomas Olsen wrote:
>>> Is there any way to *totally* stop update-notifier-kde from running on
>>> Jaunty other than nuking the file?
>> Kinda like being on a website with the unwanted pop-ups. :) Ric
>>
> 
> Well it's not the pop-ups. I usually kill the process before they arrive. It's 
> the +20 minutes it's crunching my HD. I just want to do "sudo aptitude update 
> && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade".
> I *really* hope the update notifier is optimized in Karmic.
> 
Is it not a daemon you can stop from running or something such? I am 
also annoyed by it as I got it popping up umpteen times when I was using 
aptitude for an upgrade "can not get lock of database bla bla bla"