Software updater snuck in a package that is unwanted

[Bret Busby]

On 17/10/2017, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 October 2017 at 09:32, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17/10/2017, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ..
>>> So did you manage to find the settings to change it as I described?
>>>
>>
>> Without information (details) otherwise, I think this was already
>> covered in the thread, where all that I could do, was to stop the
>> checking for updates, but I could not stop the automated installation
>> of updates/upgrades, once they are found (whether they are found
>> manually or by automation).
>>
>
> On the Updates tab what options do you see against "When there are
> security updates:"?
>

In Software Updater -> Settings, which takes me to Software & Updates,
in the Updates tab, in the line with the box with the label "When
there are security updates", three options are displayed:
Display immediately
Download automatically
Download and install automatically

It has occurred to me, from that, that you might suggest that I
restore the options to automatically check for updates, and, in that
box, select the option
Display immediately

and that I should thence be safe from the updates being automatically installed.

But, with the package
" unattended-upgrades", with the
description "automatic installation of security upgrades"
 I am not confident that anything other than the removal of that
package, would prevent "automatic installation of security upgrades".

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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