Pausing Adept??

[TYW]

is it possible to pause the download of adept?? i have a lousy ISP and my connection disconnects for a few times a day. sometimes it disconnects when i am downloading some updates.

the problem is that i was updating yesterday when the connection disconnected. adept just stopped the download and installed what it had already downloaded, ignoring the uncompleted parts. i did a check by clicking fetch updates again, but there was nothing to upgrade. i assumed that everything was installed correctly. when i restarted, i can't log in to Kubuntu. (one of the updates was the kernel, i guess this might be the problem) i didn't know how to fix that so i just reinstalled Kubuntu.

what do you guys suggest?? how can i make adept pause the download when my connection disconnects and resume afterwords?

oh yeah, another problem. after reinstalling Kubuntu, i can't open adept. it kept telling me another copy is still running. i searched KSysGuard over and over again for the "other copy" but nothing is there. what is the problem??

[TYW]

Re: Pausing Adept??

ok, i just played around with the Konsole. it told me to "dpkg --configure -a" or something like that, can't remember. i did that, a few processes ran and i'm able to run adept again. must be a few processes didn't finnish running during the last update.

so, yay!! the 2nd problem is solved!

BTW, what does "dpkg --configure -a" means??

[penguin.ch]

Re: Pausing Adept??

is it possible to pause the download of adept

I don't think so ... but you could revert to APT itself (to which Adept is merely a frontend) and there make use of the "download only" option, thus separating fetching from installing ... further reading: Debian's APT manual.

what does "dpkg ..." mean

Right from the (according) Debian reference ...:

"dpkg --configure -a" (aka "dpkg --configure --pending") configures all partially installed packages