[ubuntu-in] regarding synaptic

[Onkar Shinde]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:13 PM, ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
<ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> 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