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How to disallow Ubuntu to upgrade from like 11.10 to 12.04?

I know that its your wish if you want to upgrade, but I don't want the message in update manager that says a new release is available to get displayed.

All help will be appreciated

Bruno Pereira
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user51447
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Open the /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades with your favorite text editor, ie:

sudo nano /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

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Change the Prompt= line from Prompt=foo_setting to Prompt=never.

If you want a graphical way of doing it open the Ubuntu Software Center and under Edit > Software Sources > Updates you will find a Notify me of a new Ubuntu version option, from the drop box select Never.

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Bruno Pereira
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  • Thanks a lot! Can you also tell me how'd you change the terminal background? Pretty cool I must say! :) – user51447 Mar 25 '12 at 15:36
  • @user51447 _Edit_ > _Profile Preferences_ > _Colors_ and _Edit_ > _Profile Preferences_ > _Background_ will allow you to config what you need in `gnome-terminal`. If the answer works please use the check green mark next to the up and down vote to mark is answered. – Bruno Pereira Mar 25 '12 at 15:40
  • If motd has already started mentioning an update available on login, do: sudo dpkg-reconfigure ubuntu-release-upgrader-core then sudo update-motd to force it to update to this change. – Aria Nov 04 '21 at 17:20
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Or just use sed! We just added this to our setup script to avoid our users from borking their own systems by doing upgrades.

sudo sed -i 's/Prompt=.*/Prompt=never/' /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
rocksfrow
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To stop Ubuntu nagging you:

nano /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Change Prompt=normal to Prompt=never:

To exit nano press the combination CTRL + X and then answer to the question of saving changes with Y.

galoget
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user1912424
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You can also just disable checking altogether by doing:

apt-get remove ubuntu-release-upgrader-core
galoget
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William Stein
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On newer versions of Ubuntu, using the GUI, you should see an option

Notify me of a new Ubuntu version, therein select Never

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