Apt-get to retry downloading

Question

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?

Answer 1

From 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.