How to disable "extra packages can be installed" popup in Kubuntu 15.04?

Question

Kubuntu 15.04 shows a notification (and a taskbar icon) on each boot, after the log in, offering me to install extra packages, specifically flash, and I really don't want to install it. I've pressed "cancel" many times, but in the next boot the notification will pop-up again.

What can I do to make the notification stop?

you can remove update-manager package. your apt-get and synaptic will still work without any problems. Have you tried it ? — AliReza Mosajjal, Aug 05 '15 at 08:36
Why would you want to remove the entire update manger, thats a horrible idea! — redanimalwar, Mar 02 '18 at 15:29

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 07 '15 at 03:27

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I found an answer to this on the Kubuntu forum.

In KDE you can turn off "Restricted codec availability" under

'System Settings' -> Notifications -> 'Other Notifications'.

It works for me (Kubuntu 15.04 with kubuntu-ppa backports).

edited Oct 07 '15 at 03:27

Ravan

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answered Sep 08 '15 at 09:43

Vlado

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@redanimalwar: my suggestion was to turn off "Restricted codec availability" notifications. This is not all other notifications. I do agree that not recommending flash in the first place would be better, though. – Vlado Mar 05 '18 at 08:11
Nevermind I just read that totally wrong, I thought there is a checkbox for turning all other notifications off. Cant take my downvote away for whatever stupid reason stackoverflow has for this, sorry. – redanimalwar Mar 05 '18 at 18:18

How to disable "extra packages can be installed" popup in Kubuntu 15.04?

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