dsa42
September 14th, 2011, 06:45 PM
I have had problems previously when the download for installing updates failed. Since then, I have set the option in the update-manager to "download only in background," and then I install them after they have been downloaded successfully. Sometimes, though, I want to get the download going, and the background downloaded seems to take forever - even with nothing else on the system running. There don't seem to be any options in the GUI to force the download to start without installation. In the apt-get command line, there is a "download-only" option, but I am inferring from the man page that this is only for downloading specific packages. My question is: Is there any way to force downloading of only the smart updating packages and not to install them?