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.
Going off your comment and someone else’s I was able to find the following:
It’s referencing increasing the max parallel downloads to increase upgrade/update speed. But maybe it’ll work for what I’m looking for by lowering the value instead.
Thank you very much for taking the time to help me.
Hi, always nice to get a reply back after solution is found. Unfortunately I cannot see what is after the “following:” and “It’s referencing…”. Could be my configuration, not sure whats going on here. It looks like this for me (scaled down, no need for full size anyway, so it does not confuse readers):
Oh no, my upload must not have gone through…
It was just a screenshot of a page I found.
I think it was this:
Increase dnf Speed on Fedora
Seems like there are many pages effectively copying an article more or less exactly like this.
But, hopefully the options help me, and whoever might come across this.
Does this show up correctly?
I see. Well for the link, it shows up as a hyperlink to the webpage itself. But I see now what you meant with it.