Debian updates & upgrades with dialup [was: wxWindows for GTK installation]
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Jesse Meyer wrote:
| On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:47:39PM +0100, Tim wrote:
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|>I'm installing wxWindows 2.4 over top of 2.2, using the .tar.bz2 file I
|>downloaded (use this rather than apt-get as I often reinstall and use a
|>dialup hence need to save downloaded updates)
|
|
| To save dialup, and still do things the debian way, fetch apt-proxy, set
| apt-proxy to fetch from the remote servers, and set apt-get to fetch
| from the local apt-proxy
|
| Assuming you have the disk space (shouldn't be that large, since it only
| downloads and proxies packages you request), it should save your
| bandwidth
|
Good enough! How would you recommend I get around the initial updates
of several hundred MB? I'm still with 3.0r0.
TIA, Tim
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