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Re: upgrades



On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:03:46PM -0600, MARK wrote:
> IMHO DEBIAN LINUX is the best. Red Hat is too hard to upgrade single packages after an install.  Micro$haft Winblows bites.
> 
> I'm an old (40) DOS hacker so when I was turned on to LINUX by a network tech
> I was very relieved (from the M$ stranglehold and thrilled (about OS stability).
> 
> I purchaced debian linux 2.2r from a web site (3 cds). At home I have a w95 box 
> with a JUNO free email/web connection. JUNO has no linux client. At work I can
> use the ADSL connection to download files and then ZIP100 them home. (or if the files are less than 4MB I can email them to my JUNO account. A real internet
> connection is not something I can afford, at least not now. Would it be possible
> to tar all of the new/different packages in a realease point so that I could download one file and untar them in some directory for use with apt-get off-line?

Yes, you can do this.. There was something about this a month or two ago in
either debian-user or debian-devel list.

- Adam



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