Re: reusing deb files
Robert Storey wrote:
I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another
machine. Let me explain more clearly:
If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the package
mmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded into
directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then installed.
That's fine, but I have several computers running Debian. Let's say I copy
this deb file onto another machine, also to
directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then reissue the command "apt-get
install mmv". What happens is that the deb file is ignored and the file gets
downloaded again, and then installed.
That doesn't sound right to me. Did you do an apt-get update on both
machines first? (Of course you did.) I don't know, but I did this with
the packages on the CD (just copied them to /var/cache/apt/archives) and
it worked for me without having to download them.
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