Olaf Stetzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OS> I use my online-machine here in the institute to download packages OS> I need at home by simply installing them via apt/ftp and then take OS> the downloaded files from /var/cache/apt, carry them home on a OS> zip diskette and install them there with dselect. OS> OS> Now it semms that the downloaded files are not longer stored OS> simply in /var/cache/apt but stored (compressed?) in one single OS> file with the ending .bin.
Like 'pkgcache.bin' and 'srcpkgcache.bin'? Those are just databases APT uses to know what packages are available and where they can be downloaded from. There's no actual packages in there; the actual packages still live (as always) in /var/cache/apt/archives. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell