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Re: resuming apt-get downloads



On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:24:16AM +0200, Serafim Zanikolas wrote:

>    I'm afraid that /etc/apt/sources.list has mostly ftp entries, and 
> apt-get output indicates that these are the ones actually being used.
> I haven't found any of the keywords ``resume'' or ``partial'' neither
> in the relevant man pages nor the apt-howto.
> 
>    Also tried with apt-cache to figure out what's the package that
> contains apt-setup but, again, with no success. Thank you for your
> reply, any other hints greatly appreciated!

A suggestion.

If you are apt-getting source packages you must resume an interupted
download from the same directory you started it in if you want to
continue from the point where the interuption occured.  See man apt-get.

Brian.



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