Upgrade Insanity

[Bill Vance]

Howdy Folks;

Some of you may recall a while back, I had problems with
getting 14.04 installed on my machine, and that the
problem was basically an aging machine not being able to
deal with a new OS.  It'll be a while yet, before I can
afford the computer upgrade, but it'll get here eventually.
I would long since have upgraded if I could, and really
don't need to have my elbow jostled.

In the mean-time, I've had to put up with moderately
annoying, continual reminders that, "There's a new OS,
click here to upgrade now!", etc.  Mostly it's been
reasonably well behaved, staying down in the panel, or
across the top line of Muon, but now it's gone completely
insane.

Now there's a window stating, "APPER Distribution
upgrade available Trusty 14.04.2 LTS the latest
stable release", with a, "Start upgrade now", link.  It
occaissionally blocks out places I need to get to, and
takes anywhere from 1 to 20 mouse clicks to get rid of
it.  It reappears approximately every 30 stinking
seconds.

Is there any way to permanently turn this crap off?

Bill