apt-get update install limiting script

Jaytee · #1 December 5th, 2005, 09:46 AM

Hello everyone,
I have succeeded in installing ubuntu onto my aging laptop. My current location is on dial up not only that but the isp disconnects after four hours. When I ran "sudo apt-get update" there were 300 updates available. Because of the dial up problem I went through the GUI and deselected about 250 it took a long time as the gui only shows five or six items.
is there a quick and easy script to tell apt to install a number of items or a number of megabytes??

**kage** · #2 December 8th, 2005, 05:33 PM

You could do 'sudo apt-get install <package>' if you just wanted to install each package individually. I'm not sure if that answers your question, though.

Jaytee · #3 December 21st, 2005, 07:56 AM

Hi Kage,
Thanks for that. I did do that with a slight mod
#apt-get install <pack 1> <pack2> <pack 3>
It took a while but I have everthing except for the new kernel packages (3)
Not tooo sure if I want to install those or not..