On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 02:15:57PM -0500, Jason Pepas wrote: > On Sunday 06 October 2002 13:20, Jim Hribar wrote: > > I used apt-get to install the packages I wanted on my Debian machine > > after a "network install". I know that apt-get caches downloads so you > > don't have to download the packages more than once. > > > > How could I backup these "cached" packages? Where are they? I intend > > just to move them to another machine using ftp. > > /var/cache/apt/archives As someone else mentioned, apt-proxy will do this nicely. I've also had good experiences with apt-move and apache. If you're just doing this once tho, your ftp idea is fine. > > Additionally, I want to install Debian on another machine (I have no > > CDs, just the network-install disks). Could I somehow install Debian > > (fresh) by pointing the install to my current machine and/or package > > cache? > > on old machine: > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > on new machine: > cat selections.txt | dpkg --set-selections > apt-get install I think you want to do `apt-get dselect-upgrade' instead. -rob
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