Re: how to download packages

[Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au>]

* Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> [020808 17:10]:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 14:13, Jeff wrote:
> > How can I download to cache all the installed packages that aren't
> > already there?  apt-get with the -d option won't do it if the package
> > is installed and up-to-date.  Is there a way to down load the debs
> > based on my package selections?
> 
> Why do you want to do this?  Many packages conflict with one
> another, like exim and postfix: you can't have both installed
> at the same time.

If understand the original post correctly he does not want to down load
_all_ the packages, just all the _installed_packages_ .

Nick.

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