Eliminate ver 24 upgrade nag-ware

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 5/15/25 1:52 PM, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> I am building this Ubuntu server for running Mail-in-a-Box which
>> requires Ubuntu 22.04 and from their forum I gather they have no
>> plans for support for Ubuntu 24, but will jump to 26.  At some point.
>>
>> So how can I get rid of the
>>
>> New release '24.04.2 LTS' available.
>> Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.
>>
>> message on login?
> The advice from this Reddit post worked for me:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kdeneon/comments/yeuvj5/how_do_i_hide_the_upgrade_notification/
>
> According to them, you've got two choices. I went with the second one
> and it's working for me in Kubuntu. I no longer get told about the
> upgrade, but still get notifications for updates:
>
> Configure the system tray to hide the notification.

That only works if you have a GUI.  This is a server with no GUI installed.

> ...or...
>
> Prevent the update-manager from checking for upgrades:
> 1. Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades as root.
> 2. Change Prompt=lts to Prompt=never in the last line of the file.
> 3. Save the change.

And that is the winning way here.

thanks!