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How do I suppress the "New release '12.10' available" message?

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When I ssh into my Mythbuntu box, I get this message:

Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64)



 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/



New release '12.10' available.

Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.



Last login: <redacted>

$

But I don't intend to upgrade to 12.10, because Mythbuntu recommends using LTS releases only.

How do I suppress the "New release '12.10' available" message? I don't want to be notified until the next LTS release is available.

I've already gone to Update Manager > Settings > Updates and selected "Notify me of a new Ubuntu version: For long-term support versions", but that didn't get rid of this message.

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answered 1 Year ago nstitutencert · Accepted Answer

The other answers aren't quite right, but combining them put me on the right track.

/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades controls what updates you'll be notified about. /usr/lib/update-manager/release-upgrade-motd generates the "update available" message. The problem is that release-upgrade-motd caches the message, which means that once it's been generated, changing /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades doesn't get rid of the message.

So the answer is:

Tell Update Manager what releases you want to be notified about.

sudo rm /var/lib/update-notifier/release-upgrade-available to get rid of the cached message.

Note: For version 13.04 (and later), the path has changed. So point 2. to get rid of the cached message is now:

sudo rm /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available