Is it possible to promt you just once at the end of 8.04->8.10 upgrade instead every 10 mins so it doesnt froze the whole precess meanwhile?

It isn't really a bug so much as a security/preferences thing. If we give someone the option to "keep all" or "change all", I feel like somewhere down the line people will have an accident and blame that option.

Distribution upgrades can sometimes be serious changes to the underlying fundamentals of the system. In the face of those kind of changes, I think the consensus is that it's better to be safe than sorry.

That being said, there are two (dangerous because of above) options to use with apt-get from the terminal that will not prompt you.

If you use:
$:sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -yes
It will assume yes to all NON-DANGEROUS questions. If it comes across something it doesn't feel comfortable saying yes too, then it will abort.

If you use
$:sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -forceyes
It will say yes to everything no matter what. Let me be very clear, THIS CAN DESTROY YOUR SYSTEM.

Enjoy the danger and the power of the terminal. More information about commands for apt-get can be read on the man page with the command:
$:man apt-get

Ive been misunderstood. I don't want to say yes to all, or no to all.

I'd like is to be prompt for all those packages at the end, or (worst but still ok) at the beginning.

Then I can say overwrite it or don't at each package individually.

The problem now is that the installation last one hour and a half (3h and a half if u add the time it took to download). I had to check the screen every 10 mins because the installer prompted me for a package installing in that moment.

My question is, wouldn't it be nice if of those 3:30 hours it took for the whole installation, I just clicked once accepting the upgrade and then i were prompted just once at 3:20 for all those problematic packages (one time per package, but all together at the end of the installation)

I don't know if this is hard to do, but its a pain in the ass to be checking the screen of the computer all the time during the last 90 mins... :) just wondering

Your right, I did misunderstand you. This kind of question is more of a bug
or a feature proposal than something I can answer then. I honestly don't
know how hard this would be to implement, since most OS's I've had
experience do it this way when install/uninstalling something. I suggest you
head over to http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ and write up your idea there and
see what the community thinks!
//_
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:17 AM, AwarenesS <
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> Question #47042 on update-manager in ubuntu changed:
>
> https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+question/47042
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> AwarenesS is still having a problem:
> Ive been misunderstood. I don't want to say yes to all, or no to all.
>
> I'd like is to be prompt for all those packages at the end, or (worst
> but still ok) at the beginning.
>
> Then I can say overwrite it or don't at each package individually.
>
> The problem now is that the installation last one hour and a half (3h
> and a half if u add the time it took to download). I had to check the
> screen every 10 mins because the installer prompted me for a package
> installing in that moment.
>
> My question is, wouldn't it be nice if of those 3:30 hours it took for
> the whole installation, I just clicked once accepting the upgrade and
> then i were prompted just once at 3:20 for all those problematic
> packages (one time per package, but all together at the end of the
> installation)
>
> I don't know if this is hard to do, but its a pain in the ass to be
> checking the screen of the computer all the time during the last 90
> mins... :) just wondering
>
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