Re: apt-get install or upgrade from stored archive
You should change your sources.list and use file:// instead of ftp or http
to install from a local file, however I think the directory structure
won't be good AND ther won't be any packages.gz, furthermore you should
find some kind of force-downgrade options in apt-get. I think you should
use dpkg to downgrade in this case.
By the way, what do you mean: messed up the system, what went wrong,
perhaps it'll be easier to fix it!
Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> I had installed slink 2.1, which I upgraded through a my moden
> connection after a few days to frozen. I made a backup of the
> /var/cache/apt/archives folder in to another partition. After that I
> messed up my system, so I had to reinstall 2.1 again. How can I apt-get
> upgrade my system to the previous frozen status by using the backed
> archive? The problem I see is that apt-get will have troubble
> determining the dependencies, without a package.gz file, and there
> wasn't any in the archive. Please help. I would hate to go through the
> whole downloading thing again. If I fetch the packages.gz file existing
> now in frozen, it will probably be different enough to be a problem.
> Please give me some ideas for now and for future problems of the same
> kind.
> (Thanx)(10^6)
> Antonio.
>
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