Re: apt & cdrom repository

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

John Knops wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to download various debs to my home directory to be burnt latter
> to a cd for use on an older computer which will not be connected to the
> internet. At the moment I'm downloading all debs, including dependencies
> manually one at a time. To speed up the process I've tried to use
> ¨apt-get -d -o dir::cache= ~/Tmp/deb install ¨ without any luck.
> I'm obviously using the wrong options but can't think of any others to 
> try.Can someone tell me what I should be doing.
>
> I'm running ubuntu on my box, is this the root of the problem.
> Thanks,
>  JohnK.

Maybe apt-zip what you are looking for? I have not used it, but it 
claims to ease the process of keeping a non-networked machine up-to-date.

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