Ubuntu Landscape Nags at Login

Posted by JD 09/02/2015 at 15:00

Ever wanted to remove the Canonical nags shown at every login about landscape? I’ve seen those messages since 2007-ish and didn’t think much about it.

Someone online complained about the New release available – looked up how to make that go away and decided to remove the landscape nags too:

sudo apt-get purge landscape-common landscape-client landscape-client-ui landscape-client-ui-install

Really, only the landscape-common package seems necessary. With Ansible, removing those packages was pretty easy:

tasks/common_etc_landscape.yml 
---
- name: Remove Landscape 
  action: apt pkg={{ item }} state=absent  
  with_items:
      - landscape-common
      - landscape-client-ui-install
      - landscape-client-ui
      - landscape-client