Re: How to install and upgrade packages offline due to dial-up connection?

[Phillip Pi <ant@zimage.com>]

Thanks Adam. I will try this over the weekend. I need to sleep now. :) I 
will let you know how this goes.
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> On Friday, February 04, 2005 9:10 AM, Phillip Pi <ant@zimage.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > Bascially, I would like to take the list of packages that I need to
> > download and their locations, download them at work to burn to a CD-RW
> > and/or USB Flash drives/sticks (haven't tested to see if Flash
> > drives/sticks work on that Debian box). I see *.dep files are
> > download-
> > able from http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (unstable, stable,
> > etc.). I do NOT want have to download each file one by one. I think
> > there was about a hundred packages in apt-get upgrade list when I
> > checked last night. Gah! :(
> 
> A quick and easy solution would be something along the lines of:
> 
> * apt-get upgrade -y --print-uris | cut -s -d\' -f2 > file [on the Debian
> box]
> * wget -i file [at work]
> * Copy the files downloaded in the previous step to your removable media
> 
> and then /either/:
> 
> * Copy the files from the removable media to /var/cache/apt/archives/ on the
> Debian box, and apt-get upgrade
> 
> or
> 
> * Create an empty directory named "partial" on the removable media, in the
> directory containing the .deb files from step two
> * Mount the removable media on the Debian box, and run apt-get
> upgrade -oDir::Cache::Archives=/path/to/debs/on/removable/media