Originally Posted by jedi

Set the check interval to a stupidly high number so it's effectively disabled.

Then occasionally do a 'apt-get update' at the command line, and 'apt-get upgrade' if you want to run a upgrade.

Edit - reason: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=119 - sorry I forgot you don't like my posts.

Originally Posted by AgogData

but it only sets the intervals between the updates and its not what i'm looking for.

Originally Posted by jedi

I forgot you don't like my posts.

Originally Posted by Rob1n

The catalogues are stored in /etc/hildon-application-manager/catalogues, so you could probably do (as root):

Disable all:

Code:

sed -i -e "s/<enabled\/>/<disabled\/>/" /etc/hildon-application-manager/catalogues

Enable all:

Code:

sed -i -e "s/<disabled\/>/<enabled\/>/" /etc/hildon-application-manager/catalogues

I've not tested this myself though, so make sure you take a backup of the files beforehand!