Update settings - ignoring some updates?

Question

Using Ubuntu 15.10 - Wiley - updates check once per week, which is fine, however I see no option to NOT update certain items, IE codecs for browsers I do not use. Instead the update will bug me every day to install it, there is no option to ignore a specific update?

Answer 1

I don't think there's a way to prevent the update notification for particular packages easily, but it's possible to define different notification intervals for security and other updates in software-properties-gtk:

Since (browser) codec updates are often non-critical, you should be able to delay the notification about them, so that they're less of a nuisance.