How can I turn off Catalina nagging?

[ace (Adam Engst)]

There’s been some discussion of this over in

macOS 10.15 Catalina Ships, Upgrade with Caution

There are suggestions for turning of the incessant upgrade notification here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250711218?page=1 Being on Apple Discussions I expect it will soon be removed by moderators so here is the gist of it: From Terminal: sudo softwareupdate --ignore "macOS Catalina" when you are ready to install it (if sudo softwareupdate --reset-ignored This will not clear the red counter in the Sys Prefs icon in the Dock but will stop notifications. It is also suggested that y…