How do I stop daily automatic package downloads?

[doctordruidphd]

I need to stop the system from automatically downloading upgradeable packages every time it boots. This is causing unreasonable delays in booting and startup.

Let me make clear what I want to do: I DO want to automatically check for upgradable packages. I do NOT want them to be automatically downloaded, this is something I will do myself when time permits, rather than having the boot process grind to a halt.

This may have something to do with a script at /usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily , but I haven't figured out how to kill the auto downloading. As a last resort I could remove /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat, which seems to be what is getting this whole show going, but that will stop checking for upgrades as well.

I have removed --purged the "automatic-upgrades" package but it is still doing this.

Thanks for any help on this.

[Dai_trying]

I usually leave unattended upgrades installed as I think it is also responsible for updating the apt db (could be wrong...) so I simply alter the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades to disable the upgrading but leave the package list updating resulting in the file looking like this :-

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APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "0";

I think it would give you the behaviour you require.

[doctordruidphd]

Thanks, will give it a shot.