On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Raffaele Morelli < raffaele.more...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/5/15 Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> > >> (My system speaks to me in Japanese, so the messages below are my >> translations.) >> > > that's a big issue :-) > Nah, c'mon, my Japanese is perfect. Kanpeki-tte-yuttoru yanka. :-\ apt-get update pulled down its usual mix of stuff, then apt-get upgrade >> tells me >> >> linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 linux-libc-dev >> >> will be upgraded, but, >> >> 3 packages to upgrade, >> 0 B of archive to download out of 28.7 MB >> >> and after I told it to proceed, reads the changelog and goes to the setup >> stage without downloading. >> >> What should I understand happened here? Is the upgrade entirely contained >> in the update? Or is something wrong with my package manager? >> > > This usually means that all your packages have already been dowloaded, > have a look at /var/cache/apt/archives, they should be there > > /r > You're right. The squeeze3 kernel, etc. packages are right there in the cache directory. Odd. The dates are Saturday afternoon and evening. I just checked synaptic, and it says notify, not download. Synaptic isn't going to have a separate setting for download-in-background is it? But I'm pretty sure I ran apt-get update and upgrade in proper order on Sunday and Monday. Any idea why the install would wait until today? -- Joel Rees
