> The amount of data to be downloaded is the same, whether you use > apt/yum/up2date or download manually. There is absolutely NO BENEFIT > whatsoever to download software manually rather than using > apt/yum/up2date. Amount of data is the same, but what to do in situations when your connection fails ? Can you continue download ? With all files on WWW I could use wget to continue download. -- Eng. Dusan Djordjevic (RHCE)