How to remove permanently those error prompts while using openbox gnome? Such as: update ubuntu latest release, this kind of errors etc, how to permanently disable them so that it does not show in front of my presentation.

Follow up:

a) How do i kill that screen shot error box?

$ cat /etc/default/whoopsie



[General]

report_crashes=false



$ apport-cli



*** Send problem report to the developers?



After the problem report has been sent, please fill out the form in the

automatically opened web browser.



What would you like to do? Your options are:

  S: Send report (69.7 KB)

  V: View report

  K: Keep report file for sending later or copying to somewhere else

  I: Cancel and ignore future crashes of this program version

  C: Cancel

Please choose (S/V/K/I/C): I

b) How do i kill that update notification dialog box?

$/etc/xdg/autostart# vim update-notifier.desktop 

#NoDisplay=true

NoDisplay=false

:wq



$ cat update-notifier.desktop | grep NoDisplay

NoDisplay=false

No more disturbing popup's now.

Final follow up:

root@sun-Inspiron-One-2320:~# apt-get -f remove apport update-manager update-manager-core

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 apport-gtk : Depends: apport (>= 0.41) but it is not going to be installed

 opera:i386 : Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.3.2) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libc6:i386 (>= 2.3.6-6~) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libfontconfig1:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libfreetype6:i386 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libgcc1:i386 (>= 1:4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libglib2.0-0:i386 (>= 2.16.0) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386 (>= 0.10.16) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 (>= 0.10.15) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libice6:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libsm6:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libstdc++6:i386 (>= 4.1.1) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libx11-6:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libxext6:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libxml2:i386 (>= 2.6.27) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libxrender1:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: libxt6:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: zlib1g:i386 (>= 1:1.1.4) but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed

              Depends: fonts-liberation:i386 but it is not installable or

                       ttf-liberation:i386 but it is not installable or

                       ttf-mscorefonts-installer:i386 but it is not installable

              Recommends: flashplugin-nonfree:i386

              Recommends: cups-client:i386 but it is not going to be installed

 update-notifier : Depends: update-manager-gnome but it is not installable or

                            update-manager but it is not going to be installed

 xdiagnose : Depends: apport but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).