Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.5-3 Severity: normal
$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic APT { Periodic { Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0"; Update-Package-Lists "0"; Unattended-Upgrade "0"; AutocleanInterval "0"; } } there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf by default as far as im aware in debian stretch what else needs to be done in order to disable this ? is there a gnome package manager possibly interfering ? its very frustrating on a limited bandwidth connection each time a usb modem, for example, is connected ... -- Package-specific info: $TERM not set. $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.7.5 Compiler: g++ 5.3.1 20151207 Compiled against: apt version 5.0.0 NCurses version 6.0 libsigc++ version: 2.6.2 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 6.0.20151024 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 5.0.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe0cb5d000) libapt-pkg.so.5.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.5.0 (0x00007f011c7db000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f011c5ab000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f011c380000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f011c17a000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f011be7d000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f011bba6000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f011b98c000) libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_filesystem.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f011b773000) libboost_system.so.1.58.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_system.so.1.58.0 (0x00007f011b56e000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f011b16a000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f011af4d000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f011abd1000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f011a8cc000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f011a6b6000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f011a311000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f011a10e000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f0119f0a000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv.so.2 (0x00007f0119cf2000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f0119ad7000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f01198c7000) liblzma.so.5 => /usr/local/lib/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f01196a0000) liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblz4.so.1 (0x00007f011948e000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f0119285000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f0119080000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00005629150be000) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.7.5-3 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.2.3 ii libboost-filesystem1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-iostreams1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libboost-system1.58.0 1.58.0+dfsg-4.1 ii libc6 2.21-9 ii libcwidget3v5 0.5.17-4+b1 ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-8 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20151024-2 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 ii libsqlite3-0 3.10.2-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-8 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20151024-2 ii libxapian22v5 1.2.22-1 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.7.5-3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii sensible-utils 0.0.9 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn debtags <none> ii tasksel 3.34 -- no debconf information