How to cancel a downloaded system update?

Unwittingly, I downloaded the last 10.11.6 El Capitan update of the app store, but it is waiting for me to restart my Mac before it will install the update. As I'd wait instead until this deployment has been tested, is there a way to delete the downloaded update and keep it update automatically if I happen to do a reboot or restart my Mac? Or have I not other choice but to make sure that I do a reboot or restart, until I consider it safe to do?

v10.11.6 was beta tested.

There is no way to remove an update. Just because you're updating OS X does not necessarily mean that your Mac will experience problems.

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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