On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlab...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Since I have the file in question, where can I stuff this file, so that
> the installer sees it, and doesn't have to go to the slow repo to get it
> again.  I think the dist-upgrade saves stuff in /var/log/dist-upgrade
>
> In main.log the last entries are:
>
> 2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR IOError in cache.commit(): 'Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/texlive-extra/texlive-fonts-extra_2009-10ubuntu1_all.debConnection
>  failed
> '. Retrying (currentTry: 2)
> 2013-05-03 10:31:40,603 ERROR giving up on fetching after maximum retries
>
> Does anyone know where the files are saved for a dist-upgrade that hasn't
> finished?
>

I know that apt-get (under normal circumstances) puts the packages in
/var/cache/apt/archives. I think the upgrade process might do the same
thing. This post seems to think so as well:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/54681/can-i-make-do-release-upgrade-only-download-packages-for-a-later-upgrade

     - Chris
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