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Making updates less hassle - 'unselect all' button needed

Asked by Bob Harvey

Just installed dapper from the CD -- it lists 186 updates totalling 207 Mbytes -- on my diallup modem this would take days IF I managed to keep the session up that long. So I need to select which updates are most important. It would be VERY helpful if ALL the updates could be unselected at once, so that I could then chew away at them over a period of time. Thanks otherwise, a great distribution and one I am spreading around to all and sundry ;-).

This is now a feature request, not a bug.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

Could you not just let it download them all?
If your line is cut it will carry on where it left off.

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Ubuntu User (anotherubuntuuser) said : 		#2

Good point. You might want to file this as a bug or feature request in the bug system (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs).

Otherwise, if these comments solved your problem or addressed your issue, please consider closing this request as answered. You can find useful information on managing your support requests here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SupportRequests

If you are still having problems, let us know and we'll keep working on them.

Thanks-

Jim Jones

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Bob Harvey (bob-harvey) said : 		#3

Thanks for the responses. Thanks Alan for the helpful point about continuation, which I did not know about, and which makes the process potentially less grievous. I have arranged to hook onto a friend's DSL connection to complete the updates. So Jim, I will have a go at putting it in as a feature request and close this request.

The problem for me is not so much the reliability of the download, but the duration. I get about 3 kilobytes per second, on a good day. If I am lucky, then it will take around 19 or 20 hours. For that period I cannot use my phone for voice calls, I cannot browse the Internet or get email. Horrors!

So what I ask for is some more flexible method of control, bearing in mind the large number of items to be updated. Note that I haven't asked for the updates to be grouped into functional areas and priorities, as is done by Windows, although that would be very useful.

Cheers, Bob.