Getting rid of terminal ads on Ubuntu.
The Problem
$ sudo apt upgrade [...] Get more security updates through Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled: [...]
The Solution
By the looks of it, the advertisement message is coming from the following file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20apt-esm-hook.conf:
$ sudo strace apt upgrade [...] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20apt-esm-hook.conf", O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 [...]
Truncate the file:
$ sudo truncate -s0 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20apt-esm-hook.conf
Optional: set Ubuntu Pro configuration to disable apt news:
$ sudo pro config set apt_news=false
This post is helpful, thankyou.
You probably also what `systemctl disable –now apt-news.service` and possibly just remove the ubuntu-advantage-tools package altogether. Thoughts?
Thanks!