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How to disable avahi-daemon in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS? I have tried

sudo sh -c "echo 'manual'>/etc/init/avahi-daemon.override"

but seems it does not work.

And how to disable cups-browsed? I have tried

sudo sh -c "echo 'manual'>/etc/init/cups-browsed.override"

but seems it does not work.

David Foerster
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3 Answers3

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Since 16.04 is a systemd system, you need to do

sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket
sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service

Also, the cups-browsed.service "Wants" avahi to start, so you'll either have to disable that, too, or comment out the line in /lib/systemd/system/cups-browsed.service:

Wants=avahi-daemon.service

Then you don't need to uninstall anything.

This won't take effect until reboot, but you can do

sudo systemctl stop avahi-daemon.socket
sudo systemctl stop avahi-daemon.service

If you want to stop it right away.

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  • sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket / sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.service - this doesn't work, after reboot avahi-daemon starts anyway. – D. Ktt Mar 09 '17 at 04:11
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    True. It turns out cups-browsed.service wants to pull it in. I've udpated my answer and verified avahi no longer starts on reboot on my system. – labyrinth Mar 09 '17 at 15:34
  • I had to remove the `avahi-autoipd` package for this to take effect. Though the `avahi-daemon` was disabled and, in my case, uninstalled, ifup was still starting the `avahi-autoipd` service leading to my issues. – tyleha Oct 16 '18 at 23:23
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After trying a couple of things, the one wich worked for me was

apt-get remove avahi-daemon
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I have tried 

update-rc.d -f avahi-daemon remove  
echo manual > /etc/init/avahi-daemon.override
systemctl disable avahi-daemon
systemctl disable avahi-service

but still avahi-daemon came up after reboot.
So I ended up with
apt-get purge avahi-daemon

which finally solved the problem for me.

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