Re: Generating a list (with urls) of packages needed by apt-get dist-upgrade
Hello
Marco (<brbromo@gmail.com>) wrote:
> At home I got only a 56kbps line (really connecting at 33kbps), a bit
> slow to dist-upgrading...
>
> I would like to
>
> 1. Do "apt-get update" at home
> 2. Generate (at home) a list (with urls) of packages needed for
> "apt-get dist-upgrade"
apt-get --print-uris dist-upgrade | grep deb | cut "-d " -f1
> 3. Use that list to download all (and just) the needed packages at the
> university.
You can use the output of apt-get for that, for example as a list you
feed to wget.
> 4. Put them on a cdrw or usb key.
> 5. Do "apt-get dist-upgrade" with packages from the cdrw or usb key.
Copy them to /var/cache/apt/archives on your system, or tell apt which
cache directory to use (man apt-get or man apt.conf)
There is also an apt offline howto which you should read.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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