How to disable software updates

[redxtech]

I'm running cockpit on NixOS, where PackageKit isn't installed, and doesn't work if it is installed, due to NixOS handling packages in a fundamentally different manner.

This results in the software updates module not being functional, and erroring out.

Is there a way for me to disable the software updates section?

[martinpitt]

The easiest way, also for an official NixOS package, is to remove /usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/. In other distributions (Fedora, Debian, etc.) that is a separate binary package.

[redxtech]

I've made an overlay to remove that folder during the install process, and it works great.
Thank you!