[kde-linux] automatic updates

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 9 20:56:38 UTC 2009


On Monday 09 February 2009 14:22:38 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 08 February 2009 15:27:31 Richard Horvitz wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Feb 2009, Jim Philips wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 09:44 -0500, Richard Horvitz wrote:
> > >> When I go to Settings/Software Updates it says to automaticaly install
> > >> nothing, yet I get notices occasionally from kupdate (?) saying that
> > >> updates are being installed, without even giving me any indication as
> > >> to what is being updated.  This is not consistent, though, as
> > >> sometimes I get a window opening saying that some list of updates are
> > >> available (which is what I prefer).  What is up here?
> > >>    Thanks for any info.
> > >
> > > This behavior is more driven by your distro than KDE. What are you
> > > running? SuSE? Fedora? Ubuntu? On Ubuntu, I always get a chance to see
> > > what will be installed by an update and okay it before installing.
> >
> > I am running Fedora 10.
>
> I have Fedora 10 on this netbook, and it certainly does not install
> anything without asking.  You must have a config option somewhere that's
> causing this. Sorry I can't suggest where.
>
I think I've found it.  Look at your settings on System Settings -> Add Remove 
Software -> Settings.  Mine says to check for updates daily, but automatically 
install none.

Anne
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