Hello,
I am using Fedora, but have a temperamental internet connection at home. Updating can be difficult because large downloads are slow and tend to reach timeouts most of the time.
Is there a way to have my system download one update from the list at a time instead of multiple?
This might at least help prevent me needing to retry upwards of 4-5 times hoping it all eventually succeeds within the timeout and failure limits it seems to have.
I did check online a bit and the manual for dnf, but web searching seems to bring up “updating a single package” not iterating through the available updates to baby my horrible internet. And the manual didn’t seem to mention anything regarding this.
Hoping there is something.
Thank you very much for any suggestions or guidance.
It doesn’t really make sense to do that. Even if you do resolve dependencies to identify which one needs to come first, you’re still going to need to take manual action to download and install subsequent packages.
You should probably see if you can increase the timeout and number of retries, or just set it to run with --download-only (or whatever the dnf equivalent is) in a loop until it succeeds. Then you can run the actual install all in one go from the download cache.