How to disable gnome-software from accessing network connections in the background

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Issue

  • I want to disable gnome-software, it should not be run.
  • gnome-software is trying to access network connection in the background
Dec 09 06:44:56 node1 gnome-software[217458]: failed to call gs_plugin_refresh on shell-extensions: [*/*/*/source/shell-extensions/*] failed to download https://extensions.gnome.org//static/extensions.json: Connection terminated unexpectedly
Dec 09 06:45:16 node1 gnome-software[217458]: failed to call gs_plugin_refresh on odrs: [*/*/*/source/odrs/*] failed to download https://odrs.gnome.org/1.0/reviews/api/ratings: Connection terminated unexpectedly

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

  • gnome-software

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