Re: Offline APT
I would do quick job as follows using dpkg:
$ cd download/directory/; su
# dpkg -i *.deb
If you need to install some package in some order, install them first.
Cheers :-)
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:53:03PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At
> work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the
> instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html)
> to get a package list from apt which can be retrieved via wget.
>
> So now I have a directory with 140 meg of .deb files in. The document
> says that:
>
> $ apt-get -o Dir::Cache::archives=/mnt/debian/unstable update
>
> Should update my system using the packages I downloaded. However, apt
> ignores that directory and starts downloading the files from the ftp
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