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[Bruce Bon <question78944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

New question #78944 on synaptic in ubuntu:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+question/78944

My ISP is HughesNet satellite, which severely penalizes overstepping my downlink quota except between the hours of 2 am and 7 am.  I have a new Ubuntu Jaunty system, with over 130 MB of updates alone, plus a number of large installs I need to do.  It appears that I cannot use the either Add/Remove Applications or the Synaptic Package Manager to schedule such activity, and the Advanced Package Management section  (which covered apt-get) has been removed from the Adding, Removing and Updating Applications between Intrepid and Jaunty.  

So what is now the accepted, best-practice way of doing my installs and updates at 2 am, other than staying up for the graveyard shift?

If the answer is simply to use apt-get and cron, I can figure out how to do that, but I'm a little confused about (1) why no one has seen fit to include a scheduling option in the Synaptic Package Manager and (2) why the powers that be removed apt-get documentation from the manual -- does it mean that one should avoid using apt-get under Jaunty?

Thanks.


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