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I'm doing a

slackpkg update
slackpkg upgrade-all

and the copying from the mirror sites are taking too long; if I kill the process, will it start all over again?

Thank in advance.

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  • Why do you think killing and restarting it will make things any faster?
    – EEAA
    Jul 8, 2016 at 22:06
  • @EEAA, Just a thought.
    – BioRod
    Jul 8, 2016 at 22:08
  • Killing the process, change download mirror (one nearest your location) and then update and upgrade-all could speed up the things.
    – slackmart
    Jun 24, 2017 at 17:40

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It is indeed designed to be able to recover from it.

That said, it is always better to be cautious with such processes which could leave the system in an unstable state should any problem occur because of your kill.

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  • It's about half way done, if I go home now it will be finished but I won't be able to hit 'ENTER' on the keyboard to finish the update. What should I do?
    – BioRod
    Jul 8, 2016 at 22:37
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    Next time, run your updates inside of a GNU Screen session...
    – EEAA
    Jul 9, 2016 at 1:02

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