Re: offline apt-get update?

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in 

/usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz

Abstract
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     This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment,
     specificaly a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades.




*- On 22 Nov, Vincent Murphy wrote about "offline apt-get update?"
>  i have a potato machine which doesn't have access to the outside world
> except through a windows machine on the same ethernet segment.  moving the
> outside-world-access to the potato machine and proxying for the windows
> machine is not an option, and installing wingate on the windows machine
> would be a serious dent in my pride.  ;)
> 
>  i would like to know how i can manually perform an `apt-get update' on my
> machine.  i presume that i need to:
> 
>  - download a Packages.gz file for each line in sources.list;
>  - `add' said file to apt.
> 
>  has anybody done this before?  ideally i would like to get a list of
> absolute URLs for the Package.gz files which i can give to wget.  i can do
> this for a `apt-get upgrade' by doing
> 
>   apt-get -yy --print-uris upgrade | awk '{print $1}'
> 
>  any suggestions would be gratefully appreciate.

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