apt-get --no-download upgrade DOWNLOADS

[AndyCanfield]

My ISP does not allow large downloads in the daytime. And many packages require user input to configure. So I need to use "apt-get --download-only upgrade" at night to download the packages and "apt-get --no-download upgrade" in the daytime to install them.

"apt-get --no-download upgrade" should upgrade my system from the cached packages and indexes without accessing the Internet at all.

But "apt-get --no-download upgrade" fails if it does not have an internet connection. If it has a connection it will try to download the package indexes and my ISP will hang it.

I believe that apt-get is part of the package "apt 0.7.9ubuntu17.2" but it might be part of apt-utils.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could let us know.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!