Re: apt-get -d is cool, but now to install them

["Jean-Marc V. Liotier" <jim@jipo.com>]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 05:07, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Alas, after a lot of apt-get -d's during the previous connection, the
> only way to use apt-get (not dpkg) to then install them seems to be:
> set -- `find /var/cache/apt/archives -name \*.deb -cmin -60 -print|
> sed 's@.*/@@;s/_.*//'`; apt-get install $@

'apt-get upgrade'

'apt-get -d' puts the packages in the cache (/var/cache/apt/archives).
So the next time you run 'apt-get upgrade' it will only download
packages that are not already there.