<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Onkar Shinde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:onkarshinde@gmail.com">onkarshinde@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:13 PM, <a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a><br> <<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi<br> ><br> > Was wondering if there is some feature in synaptic that enables it to<br> > save the contents of a partial download and restart from that place when<br> > it reconnects again , something like a download manager.<br> ><br> > from what i figured synaptic (or apt) works in two phases - he first<br> > assess what packages need to be downloaded and then begins the download<br> > and the second the actually installation.<br> ></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Second phase i.e., installation cant be paused because it will lead to inconsistent state.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> > So would it be an idea to incorporate a stop restart interrupted mode in<br> > Synaptic ??<br> <br> </div>Synaptic/apt-get already resumes partial downloads. That is the<br> default behaviour and I don't think there is any option to change it.<br> <br> The current package being downloaded is in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> <br> Onkar<br> </font></blockquote><div><br>You are very right. It will start from where it was stopped. <br><br>mallikiarjun <br></div></div><br></div>