diff --git a/packages/apt/0012-keep-downloaded-packages.patch b/packages/apt/0012-keep-downloaded-packages.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff6915789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/apt/0012-keep-downloaded-packages.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/apt-private/private-cmndline.cc b/apt-private/private-cmndline.cc
+index de3992a00..96b2c1251 100644
+--- a/apt-private/private-cmndline.cc
++++ b/apt-private/private-cmndline.cc
+@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ static void BinarySpecificConfiguration(char const * const Binary)	/*{{{*/
+       _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Get::Upgrade-Allow-New", true);
+       _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Cmd::Show-Update-Stats", true);
+       _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::DPkg::Progress-Fancy", true);
+-      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages", false);
++      _config->CndSet("Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages", true);
+    }
+    if (binary == "apt-config")
+       _config->CndSet("Binary::apt-get::Acquire::AllowInsecureRepositories", true);
diff --git a/packages/apt/build.sh b/packages/apt/build.sh
index 654dcdd54..0fbd48d85 100644
--- a/packages/apt/build.sh
+++ b/packages/apt/build.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://packages.debian.org/apt
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Front-end for the dpkg package manager"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="GPL-2.0"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.4.9
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=29
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.4.10
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apt/apt_${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=d4d65e7c84da86f3e6dcc933bba46a08db429c9d933b667c864f5c0e880bac0d
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=eaa314e8ebc9e62fedf316d196d1a99d894fd715e6385ed18afd41cc2cd5b127
 # apt-key requires utilities from coreutils, findutils, gpgv, grep, sed.
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="coreutils, dpkg, findutils, gpgv, grep, libc++, libcurl, liblzma, sed, termux-licenses, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_CONFLICTS="apt-transport-https, libapt-pkg"
@@ -19,8 +18,9 @@ etc/apt/trusted.gpg
 "
 
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
--DPERL_EXECUTABLE=$(which perl)
+-DPERL_EXECUTABLE=$(command -v perl)
 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LOCALSTATEDIR=$TERMUX_PREFIX
+-DCACHE_DIR=/data/data/com.termux/cache/apt
 -DCOMMON_ARCH=$TERMUX_ARCH
 -DDPKG_DATADIR=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share/dpkg
 -DUSE_NLS=OFF