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Re: apt-get download for remote machine



On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 13:35:22 -0500
"Thomas R. Shemanske" <trs@hecke.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

apt-zip does that.


> I have a very slow internet connection at home, but a fast one at
> work.
> 
> What I would like to do is an apt-get update on the home machine,
> take some ouputted list of files which need to be updated, use the
> machine at work to download those on the list, and transfer the files
> (say via CD, zip or other media) back home and place them in
> /var/cache/apt/archives, making apt-get happy.
> 
> I am not sure how to generate the list, or get apt-get or wget to act
> on this.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> -- 



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