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Re: downloading packages separately



On Friday February 13 at 04:11pm
Charles Leow <charles_leow@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have a (slow) dial-up connection but wish to download the
> x-window-system using apt-get.
> 
> I would like to download the *.deb files separately from another
> source (with faster Internet connection).
> 
> How can I easily obtain all the *.deb files to achieve this?  I did a
> search of the packages on www.debian.org for x-window-system and was
> met with many links to all the dependent modules.  Is there a way I
> can pull down all relevant files?

apt-cache show apt-zip
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