On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jos Collin, ILUG <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 03:04:56 +0530 > "A. Mani" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> /var/cache/apt/archives >> >> The trick is to move the contents to some other place and put it back >> again at the right time... not at the start > > What do you mean by "right time"? > > I think there is no proper way to do the pause/resume. Also there is no > way to resume downloading from the middle of a partially downloaded .deb > file.
I have done this in a version of kubuntu: 1. start dist upgrade (the graphical tool) 2. stop it in the middle of download 3. copy the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives to some other place. 4. shutdown 5. Boot later 6. start dist upgrade after whatever cleanup is necessary (lock files may need to be deleted by superuser) 7. Initially /var/cache/apt/archives will be emptied by upgrade tool 8. let upgrade tool start the download. 9. pause, move back the archives and resume Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
