James Emmrich

I have found this handy article. One of my pet peeves is intrusive software. And with Ubuntu’s new release, Jaunty, which pops up the upgrade program in the mix of all your open documents and workspace, can be quite annoying. I will bloody upgrade when I’m good and ready thank you very much!

Useful excerpts:

Alternative method (via the terminal)

If you are just plain lazy, here’s a much easier step.

In your terminal, type the following command:

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

To recover:

gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch true

Original article here:

http://maketecheasier.com/remove-the-annoying-update-manager-pop-up-in-ubuntu-jaunty/2009/06/18