On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Was wondering if there is some feature in synaptic that enables it to > save the contents of a partial download and restart from that place when > it reconnects again , something like a download manager. > > from what i figured synaptic (or apt) works in two phases - he first > assess what packages need to be downloaded and then begins the download > and the second the actually installation. > > So would it be an idea to incorporate a stop restart interrupted mode in > Synaptic ??
Synaptic/apt-get already resumes partial downloads. That is the default behaviour and I don't think there is any option to change it. The current package being downloaded is in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
