Re: just fetch .debs without installing
On Thursday 13 May 2010 13:07:34 Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Wolodja Wentland <wentland@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> :
> >> What is the optoin to pass to apt-get in order to make it just fetch
> >> the .debs without installing them?
> >
> >It has already been pointed out that -d/--download-only is the correct
> >option to pass to apt-get in order to keep apt-get from installing
> >retrieved Debian packages.
> >You have not explained why you want to do this,
>
> I have more bandwidth (1Mbps) at nitgh than during the day (256kbps).
> I would like to launch a dist-upgrade, but I want it to happen face to
> me. I'd rather pre-download the .debs and launch real dist-upgrade face
> to face.
> ...
I've used a cron job doing "aptitude -dy full-upgrade" at night to do this in
similar circumstances.
-Chris
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