Originally Posted by jacktanner

Open X-Terminal. Paste in this command:

Code:

gconftool -s --type int /apps/hildon/update-notifier/check_interval 4294967295

Press enter.

This doesn't completely turn off automatic updates, just makes them very infrequent. (4294967295 is the number of minutes between automatic updates.)

If the above doesn't work, you might need to become root (administrator) first. Install the rootsh package from extras, and then execute this command in X-terminal before the gconftool command above:

Code:

sudo gainroot