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update-manager-core package

do-release-upgrade with a "just download" option

Asked by Andreas Beder on 2011-09-13

I took a short view into the do-release-upgrade script, and
i wonder while there is NO "just download" option, like apt-get --download-only.

Is there are possibility to download the release packages in advance ?!

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Solved by:: Andreas Beder

Solved:: 2011-09-13

Last query:: 2011-09-13

Last reply:: 2011-09-13

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enubuntu (mr.tennents) said on 2011-09-13:

If you want to download all the update automatically when it's proposed, do this:
1. Open a terminal by hitting CTRL + ALT + T
2. Insert this command:
sudo software-properties-gtk

3. In one of this tab of the window, (probably update) select what you want in automatic updates.

Sorry if I have misunderstood

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Andreas Beder (andreas-beder) said on 2011-09-13:

I did a "do-release-upgrade" on a virtual machine and then copied all files from /var/cache/apt/archives to the
target system which should do the trick..

anyway, i really wonder that there is no --download-only option at the "do-release-upgrade" script

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said on 2011-09-13:

Another common method to not download all the packages is to set an apt proxy cache ubuntu pc can be the same pc where you have done the do-release-upgrade...

Main site: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

One howto: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/apt-cacher-ng-http-download-proxy-for-software-packages.html

Ubuntu answer: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt-cacher-ng