How to Disable Automatic Updates in Ubuntu

July 19, 2024

While automatic updates are helpful, they can sometimes get in the way of your work. Here’s how you can disable them in Ubuntu.

What you will learn:
1. how you can disable automatic updates in Ubuntu
2. How to Disable Automatic Updates on Ubuntu or Unattended Upgrade feature
3. How you can have manual control over when and which update to run
4. How to prevent “Waiting for cache lock: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend.” error
5. How to Disable Automatic Updates on Ubuntu
a. How To check if Unattended Upgrades is installed and running on your system
b. How to view the current configuration of Unattended Upgrades
c. How To disable Unattended Upgrades on Ubuntu
d. How to Change the value of Update-Package-Lists and Unattended-Upgrade to 0
e. How to tell the system to disable the automatic downloading and installation of updates
f. How to verify if the automatic updates are disabled
g. How to re-enable automatic updates
h. How to permanently disable the automatic updates feature
6. Disable Automatic Updates on Ubuntu Graphically
a. How to configure update configuration to check for updates daily
b. How to set the value of Automatically check for updates to Never
c. How to disable automatic updates to security updates
7. Installing Updates Manually on Ubuntu
a. How To manually check and install updates on your system