Turn off Automatic Updates on Ubuntu 16.04

Automatic updates on Ubuntu is good, but sometimes you want to turn automatic updates off, here's how to do it


Edit "10periodic" file on etc/apt/apt.conf.d

sudo nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic

change the following lines from

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; 

to

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0";