Re: having 2 debian installations...
On 14-Nov-2001 Christian Groessler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of
> it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages
> download from the internet.
>
> After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded
> package files should be deleted. I answered no in the hope to use them
> to update the other installation.
>
> This is now my question, where are these downloaded packages located
> in the file system and how do I tell the other installation that I
> have these updates?
>
/var/cache/apt/archives, if you pay close attention apt tells you this when it
asks about remving the packages. Just copy the debs to the same dir on the
other box and apt will only download missing packages or updated ones.
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