I believe there's a "APT Offline Howto" that is just what your looking for. I can't seem to find it since my recent update that moved documentation all over kingdom come. Search in the debian docs on apt...
On 19 Jul, Joel Gautschi wrote: | I want to do the following thing: | I have a debian (slink) pc at home. Sometimes I want to update some packages | or even the whole system - f.e. to a later debian dist. the problem is that | I don't have a static connection to the internet (or sth like that) at home. | My connection isn't fast enough if i want to upgrade to a later | debain-dist... (-> it would cost a lot of money). the best solution would be | if I could.... generate a list of the needed packages for upgrade on my | linux pc at home (f.e. with apt-get). then I want to take this list to a NT | workstation at firm (where we have a static internet connection) and | download there the needed debian packages (automaticly with help of the | generated list on my pc). any ideas how I can do that? | | regards | Joel Gautschi | aka J-freak / Carrots | http://www.game-over.ch/ | | | -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
