Disable Ubuntu APT news about security updates, features and services.
Perform apt operation to notice news section.
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: grim libflashrom1 libftdi1-2 libllvm13 libllvm13:i386 libvulkan1:i386 libwayland-client0:i386 libxcb-randr0:i386 mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. # # News about significant security updates, features and services will # appear here to raise awareness and perhaps tease /r/Linux ;) # Use 'pro config set apt_news=false' to hide this and future APT news. # The following NEW packages will be installed: libllvm15 libllvm15:i386 The following packages have been kept back: gnome-initial-setup gnome-remote-desktop grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed python3-software-properties software-properties-common software-properties-gtk ubuntu-advantage-tools update-notifier update-notifier-common vagrant The following packages will be upgraded: alsa-ucm-conf fonts-noto-color-emoji gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnome-control-center-faces google-chrome-stable grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common kbd libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2 libdrm2:i386 libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libglapi-mesa libglapi-mesa:i386 libglx-mesa0 libglx-mesa0:i386 libinput-bin libinput10 libxatracker2 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 snapd systemd-hwe-hwdb tailscale 39 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 247 MB of archives. After this operation, 250 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] [...]
Disable APT news using the Ubuntu Pro command line utility.
$ sudo pro config set apt_news=false
Alternatively, alter configuration file and reload it.
$ cat /etc/ubuntu-advantage/uaclient.conf
# Ubuntu Pro client config file. # If you modify this file, run "pro refresh config" to ensure changes are # picked up by Ubuntu Pro client. contract_url: https://contracts.canonical.com daemon_log_file: /var/log/ubuntu-advantage-daemon.log data_dir: /var/lib/ubuntu-advantage log_file: /var/log/ubuntu-advantage.log log_level: debug security_url: https://ubuntu.com/security timer_log_file: /var/log/ubuntu-advantage-timer.log ua_config: apt_http_proxy: null apt_https_proxy: null apt_news: false global_apt_http_proxy: null global_apt_https_proxy: null http_proxy: null https_proxy: null metering_timer: 14400 ua_apt_http_proxy: null ua_apt_https_proxy: null update_messaging_timer: 21600 update_status_timer: 43200
$ sudo pro refresh config
Successfully processed your pro configuration.
Now, the news section will be gone.
$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: grim libflashrom1 libftdi1-2 libllvm13 libllvm13:i386 libvulkan1:i386 libwayland-client0:i386 libxcb-randr0:i386 mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: libllvm15 libllvm15:i386 The following packages have been kept back: gnome-initial-setup gnome-remote-desktop grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64-signed python3-software-properties software-properties-common software-properties-gtk ubuntu-advantage-tools update-notifier update-notifier-common vagrant The following packages will be upgraded: alsa-ucm-conf fonts-noto-color-emoji gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnome-control-center-faces google-chrome-stable grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common kbd libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2 libdrm2:i386 libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libglapi-mesa libglapi-mesa:i386 libglx-mesa0 libglx-mesa0:i386 libinput-bin libinput10 libxatracker2 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 snapd systemd-hwe-hwdb tailscale 39 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 247 MB/247 MB of archives. After this operation, 250 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] [...]
Ubuntu Pro is free on up to 5 machines for everyone, so you can always try it out and I strongly recommend to do so.
