Annoying update requests

doug.schouten
Hi all,

Is there a way to disable the update notifications? I find it frustrating to always have this window popping up in Linux and I see no way to disable it. The abundance of very minor updates makes it so that I do not wish to follow the advice and update 'security' features every couple of weeks.
  • adamsmith
    I was sure Standalone (like Firefox) defaults to background updates. I never get any update notifications. Am I really misremembering this? What do they say exactly?
  • doug.schouten
    I am using the Linux client. The update notifications are a dialog box with some statement about a new version available along with buttons to update or cancel. Since the update wouldn't work without sysadmin privileges anyway, its not particularly useful.
  • aurimas
    Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Open about:config -> app.update.auto -> false
  • doug.schouten
    Sweet! Thanks!
  • aurimas
    Though if you installed Zotero Standalone by downloading from zotero.org, you should have installed it as a local user (though IIRC, there's not much to install, you just extract the package). If you installed it via aptitude or whatever comes with your flavor of Linux, then I would be curious where you installed it from. I think the most popular ppa for Ubuntu disables auto-updating.
  • doug.schouten
    I extract it as root in /opt so its available system-wide.
  • aurimas
    Well, guess you know what you want from it. With Standalone, updates are not that critical (though we can't provide support on the forums for outdated software, so that should be your first troubleshooting step in the future). Much more important for Firefox, because it has to keep up with changes in the browser.
  • doug.schouten
    Makes sense, thanks again for your help!
  • adamsmith
    In case its of interest and you're running Ubuntu/Mint, an (inofficial) PPA is described here:
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/25317/install-zotero-standalone-from-ubuntu-linux-mint-ppa/%5D

    Having to run as su every time you need to update seems painful (but as aurimas says, obviously up to you).
  • doug.schouten
    Thanks for the info. Am running Fedora on my laptop, but will keep in mind if I ever switch back to Ubuntu.
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