Updates

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007, Farid Ansari wrote:

> *Would it be possible to do the updates in small sizes ? just like the
> windows xp which allows you to select the updates which you want to install.

Well, the update manager, when it pops up has checkboxes beside each
package.  Only those that are checked get upgraded so you can upgrade what
you want.

It it's just a question of download speed, I guess you might want to set
things up to download the files whenever you're online.  Under 

	System->Administration->Software Sources

you can tick a box to have the update manager download available upgrades
automatically.  Then when you go to apply the upgrades, hopefully much of
the downloading might already be done.

There is a package available called cron-apt which might be better than the
graphical update manager for this.  It doesn't need you to be logged in to
download packages and it can start itself when the network comes up if
you're on say, a dialup connection.

Gavin