30 hours ago
When using wget, -c is used to keep wget retrying to download, usually in the event of an internet interruption. What equivalent of -c can we use for apt-get to keep on retrying even in the case of unstable internet connection which keeps on getting disconnected?
-c
20 hours ago
From man apt.conf
man apt.conf
Retries Number of retries to perform. If this is non-zero APT will retry failed files the given number of times.
echo 'Acquire::Retries "3";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries
Since apt 2.3.2, the default is 3.