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update-manager package

  1. Bug #460015
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 460015

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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote : Re: upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 hangs during 'getting new packages'

Looking at the ps output, I see:
root 4539 1.4 0.1 5500 2188 pts/0 S+ 12:37 2:56 /usr/lib/apt/methods/http

I use a local mirror and all the packages for the upgrade were downloaded within a few minutes.