"ext Alfonso F R" <aswarp2002 at yahoo.es> writes:
> > The download will eventually timeout in the kernel.
>
> That is surely the reason, as I was connected against a router handling many
> P2P connections. ?Any chance of pushing up the timeout window for the AM?
No, why? If you get bored waiting for the timeout, you can hit
"Cancel".
> > Also, the AM will attempt to download from different servers in
> > parallel, just like "apt-get update". So, if one of the servers
> > does not respond, and the download doesn't finish, you should be
> > able to cancel it at that point and the already downloaded
> > repository indices should be used (contrary to the error message
> > that says that the "Last refreshed list is shown".)
>
> So, the indices are updated for all the repos except for the ones which do
> fail,
Correct. (At least, that's the idea. There might be bugs.)
> > Is there any danger in using .DEB/.ARM files instead of the AM?
I don't understand. The two options you list are not alternatives, as
far as I can see. You can install .deb file with the AM ("Install
from file..."), and you can use repositories without the AM ("apt-get"
in a terminal).
