Disabling auto updates

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Edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades and change it to: 

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

where the numbers represent the number of days.

Now Linux will work the way it used to: telling you when there are updates.

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