Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: > I know that apt-get -d dist-upgrade ask yes, but how do I pipe to > it. I tried apt-get -d dist-upgrade | y and doesnt work: y -> command > not found > Thanks, Paulo Henrique > > > Pipe yes to it.
I think by "Pipe yes to it", he meant to use the "yes" program, which just prints "y\n" over & over & over .... Like this: yes | apt-get -d dist-upgrade Of course, this will only work if all of the questions apt-get asks require the answer "y". But this may not be the case, since, according to Shaleh: > Yes, except for the fact that the install needs you there to hit enter > a few times. Apt says "is this correct [Y/n]", "press enter to > continue". The packages scripts may ask you for info as well. The "press enter to continue" will probably be ok, yes would just be typing "y" before pressing enter. Shouldn't do any harm. But, you then will be answering "y" to all of the questions asked by the upgrading scripts. This is probably not what you want. Here is a (possibly stupid) idea. Use the command-line option to apt-get (I forgot what it was! Type apt-get --help) that doesn't actually download or install anything, just tells you want it *would* do. Note the packages that you need. Then, write a script that ftp's (using ftp's -s option) all of the required packages at night during the cheap download time. The following day, you can install the packages when you are off-line. Here is another, much simpler, and probably better, idea. Stay up late one night and start "apt-get dist-upgrade" yourself, and once downloading starts, go to sleep. Use cron or at to automatically hang up the phone when the expensive rates begin again. (i.e., just put "poff" in the script that runs at 6am, or whenever.) If you got all the packages in one night, you'll wake up to a system asking you the first configuration question. If you hung up in the middle of a download, you can repeat the procedure again the next night. apt-get will resume where it was cut off. Good luck Kirk
