Re: How to install and upgrade packages offline for my Debian box due to dial-up connection?
> > [Sarge no more broadband]
> >
> > I do have broadband access, CD burners, and USB Flash drives/sticks
> > (256- 512 MB) at work. Is there a way to get all these Debian packages
> > and upgrades quickly? I do not and cannot run Debian at work due to
> > heavy firewall restrictions (apt-get update and upgrade doesn't work
> > well in VMware v4.5.x test).
>
> This is asked frequently on this list. You can find more by searching
> the list archive and googling for APT offline howto. To give you a
> quick answer, you can get a list of filenames with
> apt-get --print-uris dist-upgrade
> and later copy the packages to /var/cache/apt/archives. Then you run
> apt-get dist-upgrade.
Thanks Andreas. This looks like the solution I want! I used redirect (>
results.txt). Do you have a script to clear out all the extras and only
keep the URLs? I need to figure out how to copy all these URLs to GetRight
in Windows without doing it manually one by one. I have 100 URLs! I am not
a coder so...
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