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The title is sufficient I think. How can I stop Fedora to automatically download and install system and software updates on restart?
How to disable automatic updates on Fedora 25?
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dnf is a background service that updates the repository metadata automatically. dnf makecache is scheduled to run after every reboot
To disable dnf-makecache.service:
systemctl disable dnf-makecache.service
Also disable the dnf-makecache.timer or the service will be restarted:
systemctl disable dnf-makecache.timer
Regards
stefzeer
Posted 2016-11-09T09:12:59.570
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Thank you, I've accepted the answer. I just wonder if commands are the only option to disable updates on Fedora 25, is it possible through editing configuration files as well? – None – 2016-11-09T11:46:45.920
7Note that you also will need to separately disable packagekit refreshes. This is a known problem and I'm optimistic that we'll get this solved in the next release (but not F25).
gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false– mattdm – 2016-11-09T15:14:35.1931the mattdm comment has to be in the answer, seems to be the obligatory piece of the puzzle as everything else was kinda disabled – MolbOrg – 2017-04-10T16:19:14.983
Even after setting download-updates=false in gsettings, it's downloading huge metadata files which is very very annoying. I'm trying to use fedora after long time Ubuntu and this reminded me why I chose ubuntu first. – Anwar – 2017-07-18T04:52:11.573