Re: How to apt-get upgrade from files only
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 00:06, andrej hocevar wrote:
> Some days ago I've apt-get upgraded my system and saved all the
> downloaded files, ie packages, that were to be upgraded. I saved
> them in order to give them to a friend with a slow connection -- so,
> I thought, he can upgrade the packages we have in common.
>
> Somehow, we were puzzled: what does one have to put into his
> sources.list, since those files really are only packages, not sorted
> in any order and not in the special directory structure.
> Any ideas?
Drop the .deb files into /var/cache/apt/archives/ and run:
$ apt-get upgrade --no-download --ignore-missing
Ross
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