Re: running "apt-get update" locally

[Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount@googlemail.com>]

Albretch Mueller wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jochen Schulz <ml@well-adjusted.de>
> wrote:
> > From what I guess, you actually just want to:
> 
> > # apt-get update
> > # apt-get -d upgrade
> 
> > This stores all upgradeable package files
> > in /var/cache/apt/archives,
> 
>  what about the case in which you want to stash the downloaded files
> somewhere else?
> 

man apt implies that

apt-get -d -o Dir::Cache::Archives=/path/to/dir upgrade

would work.


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