greetings, everyone . . .
for ages now i've seen the little icon on my toolbar that informs me there are updates to ge gotten and have promptly gotten them. but now, since the upgrade from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, i'm also getting annoying, microsoft-like popups having to do with "system problem" and such. they inquire as to whether i want to report it and i say okay, sure, and click on the box, whereupon a web browser opens and tells me there's no site at the link specified.
i'd like to be rid of the whole thing. i'm perfectly happy with the adept updater (even though i open a terminal for the update/upgrade).
now today i see that among the updates is something called ubuntu advantage tools. i do not know what this is, but it also strikes me as something i do not want.
so, then, my questions are: how do i get rid of the new pop-up upgrade nonsense? and is it safe to remove "ubuntu advantage tools"? (it seems like one of those things that should i do a purge would remove other things that i don't want rid of.)
thanks for any advice you may have.
Look in /var/crash remove anything there (back it up elsewhere) see if you still get the errors if yes the logs there should now be relevant to the issue at hand.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:39 AM, dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
greetings, everyone . . .
for ages now i've seen the little icon on my toolbar that informs me there are updates to ge gotten and have promptly gotten them. but now, since the upgrade from ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, i'm also getting annoying, microsoft-like popups having to do with "system problem" and such. they inquire as to whether i want to report it and i say okay, sure, and click on the box, whereupon a web browser opens and tells me there's no site at the link specified.
i'd like to be rid of the whole thing. i'm perfectly happy with the adept updater (even though i open a terminal for the update/upgrade).
now today i see that among the updates is something called ubuntu advantage tools. i do not know what this is, but it also strikes me as something i do not want.
so, then, my questions are: how do i get rid of the new pop-up upgrade nonsense? and is it safe to remove "ubuntu advantage tools"? (it seems like one of those things that should i do a purge would remove other things that i don't want rid of.)
thanks for any advice you may have.
dep
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said Pisini, John: | Look in /var/crash remove anything there (back it up elsewhere) see if | you still get the errors if yes the logs there should now be relevant to | the issue at hand.
Thanks, but I'm more interested in being rid of the duplicative pop-ups, being perfectly satisfied with Adept Updater, and I have no interest in some Ubuntu Advantage thing. So I'm trying to figure out whether I can safely get rid of both the application producing the pop-ups and the Ubuntu Advantage thing, and, if so, what the pop-up application is called, so that I might purge it and banish it and its offspring forevermore.
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Pisini, John