Dudes, for the lowest of the low bandwitdh users: http://jidanni.org/comp/apt-offline/index_en.html : If just "apt-get update", even say with [4]apt-rsync, still takes too much modem time, thus ruling out [5]apt-zip, then let's move as much of the operation we can off of our low bandwidth computer, doing all apt computing instead on a high bandwidth computer where we have an account. We implement [6]apt-doc's offline idea.