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Old 11-17-2006, 05:14 PM   #1
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Reducing Update Times


I know updates are good and all but I would like ubuntu to just check for updates about once a month. Is there anyway to do this? Is it as easy as just moving apt from /etc/cron.daily to /etc/cron.monthly?
 
Old 11-17-2006, 07:29 PM   #2
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http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/md...ron-howto.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2543
 
Old 03-13-2007, 07:44 AM   #3
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YOu can also disable the adept notifier completely: /home/*user*/.kde/share/config/adept_notifierrc
 
  


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