Remove Updated Software Notification on 20.04.2 LTS

Pop - Up "Updated Software is available for this computer. Do you want to install now"Here is the image

1. I have set the updater to Never
2. I have disabled the notification
3. I have tried the "pkill update-notifier"
4. sudo systemctl disable apt-update-daily.service and timer disabled to "0"

Can some one help to remove the notification completely?

1 Answer

Warning: the below answer disables update popups, this may end with lower security level for your system. Continue only if you are sure.

To disable update-notifier popup on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS use the following commands:

# disable cron jobs for Update Notifier
sudo chmod -x /etc/
sudo chmod -x /etc/
# disable graphical Update Notifier application
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart/
cp /etc/xdg/autostart/update-notifier.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
grep -q "^X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop && sed -i "s/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=true/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false/" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop || echo "X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false" >> ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop

and then reboot.

To disable update-notifier popup on Ubuntu 21.04 use the following commands:

# disable cron jobs for Update Notifier
sudo systemctl disable update-notifier-download.timer
sudo systemctl disable update-notifier-motd.timer
# disable graphical Update Notifier application
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart/
cp /etc/xdg/autostart/update-notifier.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
grep -q "^X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop && sed -i "s/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=true/X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false/" ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop || echo "X-$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP-Autostart-enabled=false" >> ~/.config/autostart/update-notifier.desktop

and then reboot.