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Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2025 4:08 am**

Hi Folks

I was hoping for some guidance on how to make the update frequency once per week, rather than the default, every day.

I'm running KDE and I know from v6.3, the option for update frequency is in Discover. In to settings, top right corner press 3 dots and choose "Configure Updates". When it's working that's easy to do. When I try it with MX KDE, I'm dropped at an undefined KDE settings screen.

But, I expect something else is controlling the update frequency in MX. I'd like to find out what that is and how I can set it.

Many thanks in advance.

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System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-32-amd64 [6.1.129-1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-32-amd64 root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm: SDDM Distro: MX-23.5_KDE_x64 Libretto Jan
    12 2025 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B460I-PLUS v: Rev 1.xx serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1601 date: 02/11/2022
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse B330/M330/M331 serial: <filter>
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CPU:
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  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
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Graphics:
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    bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9bc8 class-ID: 0300
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Swap:
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Sensors:
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Repos:
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Info:
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Boot Mode: UEFI

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2025 8:04 am**

@RossH67 wrote:

But, I expect something else is controlling the update frequency in MX. I'd like to find out what that is and how I can set it.

While it may seem like updates are a daily occurrence, the frequency actually is 'as available'. What I suggest you do is to pick a day and time when you want to run the updates and ignore the update indicator the rest of the week or set up a chron job to do the same.

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2025 8:20 am**

install

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kde-config-updates

and the settings should be present after that.

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2025 3:11 pm**

Thank you both for your assistance. Installing kde-config-updates made Discover work as expected. Thank you very much!

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2025 3:13 pm**

RossH67 wrote: Tue Mar 18, 2025 3:11 pm Thank you both for your assistance. Installing kde-config-updates made Discover work as expected. Thank you very much!

Thank you for the question. We've added that package to our default install for our next release.

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2025 4:40 pm**

That's good news. I've played with KDE v6.3 on Fedora but it was still a little buggy at that stage. I prefer MX as a distro any day! Looking forward to the next major release.

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