Re: apt-get etiquette
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 17:16:57 +0100, Andreas Janssen
<andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> 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.
Got that. It'll save me a little time, and the mirror some traffic.
> 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).
Still down.
Richard
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