14 May
2012
14 May
'12
5 a.m.
On 14/05/12 11:39, Brian May wrote:
On 14 May 2012 11:01, Toby Corkindale <toby.corkindale@strategicdata.com.au> wrote:
That's odd.. The way the Ubuntu upgrader works is specifically designed to avoid that problem of internet connections timing out halfway through. The upgrader will download every package, before starting to install them.
... except for some non-free packages. e.g. adobe flash downloads its files at install time. I think there is some other package that does something similar for Microsoft fonts.
Ah, very good point there. I'd forgotten about those. I think the Sun^WOracle Java download used to do the same too, but Ubuntu switched to OpenJDK ages ago.