On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:51 PM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Jos Collin, ILUG <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >
Addendum: You will need to be clearer about the directories ( ... can't remember) -- 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]
