Re: apt-get etiquette
Hello
RichardA (<pingvin@simaric.net>) wrote:
> I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my
> install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times.
> Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many
> packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a
> local cache?
Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You can
find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can copy the
files you saved from the cache back and after updating the package
lists, apt will automatically use them instead of downloading them
again, at least if there isn't a newer version on the server. You can
also delete obsolete files from the cache using the auoclean function
of apt-get.
You might also want to take a look at apt-move (you can get package
descriptions from <http://packages.debian.org>, but it seems to be down
right now).
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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