Written by buggyman the 28 Mar 08 at 22:28.

A Pause/Resume Button should be created on the screen where we can see the status of the files being downloaded.

This screen is being called by Synaptic, Update Manager, Add/Remove programs. So, this solutions will work with all software installation methods.

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More Info about the problem -
The files are already cached inside the folder "/var/cache/apt/archives/partial" and if we cancel the download all files are caches here and can be resumed again automatically, but there is still no way to temporary pause the download. We have to cancel the download.

A Pause/Resume Button should be created on the screen where we can see the status of the files being downloaded. This screen is being called by Synaptic, Update Manager, Add/Remove programs. So, this solutions will work with all software installation methods. ------------------------------------ More Info about the problem - The files are already cached inside the folder "/var/cache/apt/archives/partial" and if we cancel the download all files are caches here and can be resumed again automatically, but there is still no way to temporary pause the download. We have to cancel the download.

Written by morphles the 23 Feb 09 at 07:03.

There could be torrent tracker (well there is for iso's if I'm correct) witch could host torrents for individual packages, or groups of packages. Synaptic and update manager could use those torrent to give nice enhancements to package downloading: set speed limitations for downloads, pause resume at will. This could use some small torrent client as daemon in background (maybe rtorrent, or some custom client). It would stop and pause downloads on shutdown, and start and resume on startup. When you open synaptic or update manager it would say something like: "requested downloads coplete" or "downloads still in progress", and option to select more packages, change download speed and maybe something more that can be needed.

There could be torrent tracker (well there is for iso's if I'm correct) witch could host torrents for individual packages, or groups of packages. Synaptic and update manager could use those torrent to give nice enhancements to package downloading: set speed limitations for downloads, pause resume at will. This could use some small torrent client as daemon in background (maybe rtorrent, or some custom client). It would stop and pause downloads on shutdown, and start and resume on startup. When you open synaptic or update manager it would say something like: "requested downloads coplete" or "downloads still in progress", and option to select more packages, change download speed and maybe something more that can be needed.