It's really unfortunate that you're trying to design something here
without getting help from a designer. Any good designer would ask two
important questions.

"There should be also warning to user, not to disturb update in any way"

The first question is: Why do you need that at all? There isn't an
equivalent warning when installing a system update on iOS, for example.
What is wrong with Ubuntu that it needs one?

"not to disturb update in any way, such as trying to power phone off"

There is no UI for powering the phone off when you are installing an
update, and nothing bad (that I know of) happens if you do.

"removing battery....."

Removing the battery could cause data loss at any time, not just when
you're installing updates. Should we have an equivalent warning on
screen on all the time? If not, why show it here?

As for the suggested text itself:

"System updating!"

The system updates every month; it is not that exciting. Even if the
warning was necessary at all, an exclamation mark would be crass. (UI
text instead uses bold, larger text, and occasionally color to indicate
danger.)

"Do not disturb in any way"

What does this mean? Am I allowed to put it in my pocket? Am I allowed
to touch the screen?

"and to keep power plugged"

Even if the warning was necessary at all, this phrase would not be: the
device does not, in fact, need to be connected to power during a system
update. On the contrary, the update process checks that you have enough
battery charge before it starts.

And even if the warning *and* this phrase were both necessary, "Do not
disturb in any way, and to keep power plugged" is grammatically
incorrect in three ways: (1) it suggests that you should *not* keep
power connected, when you meant the opposite; (2) the "to" shouldn't be
there, and (3) "plugged" is not a complete verb phrase in the way that
"connected" or "plugged in" are. Better would be "keep connected to
power" -- though again, that isn't necessary in the first place.

And finally, why is the text not using the Ubuntu font?

"Preferably progress or more verbose could be added."

This is the second question a good designer would ask: Can we use
something else instead of text, so that the UI is calmer and less
bothersome? In this case we can. You are, commendably, trying to guard
against the possibility that someone will see nothing happening and
think that the update is stuck. But the reason they'll think it's stuck
is that the specified determinate progress is not implemented
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareUpdates#restart-and-install>, so it
looks exactly the same after three minutes as it did after one minute.
Please just fix that, rather than adding alarming text.

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