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Re: downloading packages separately



on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 12:33:13AM -0500, Johann Koenig (explosive@hvc.rr.com) wrote:
> 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

Also of use if you're maintaining multiple systems:  apt-proxy.


Peace.

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