Comment 352 for bug 332945

I'm slightly bewildered that so many here apparently feel that bothering to read the Jaunty Release Notes and doing what they suggest, to restore the old approach, is impossibly difficult... or something?

At http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904#Change%20in%20notifications%20of%20available%20updates one finds the information that:

    Users who wish to continue receiving update notifications in the previous manner
    can restore the earlier behavior using the following command:

    gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false

It's a single command, one that you can cut and paste into a terminal window directly from the release notes. If this issue bothers someone enough to comment here about "my systems are missing updates" and "I do less updates", why not just do that single cut and paste, logout, login, and relax :) If you are handling a corporate rollout to thousands of Ubuntu desktops, then running this from a script in /etc/profile.d/ would probably work...

I prefer the "old" way, so I ran that command as soon as I read the release notes. It works. Job done. I'd have preferred a more obvious way to change this preference, but... the documented approach worked fine, first attempt, so no real complaint from me!

You *do* have the choice. So, if you wish to... go ahead and exercise that choice :)