Updates

[Farid Ansari]

Hi Gavin,
I cannot find software sources in system administration.
Please advise.
Thanks,
Farid

On 3/4/07, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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