On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 08:49:26AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Follow-up question: when "installing the packages that are needed", from > where are they obtained? > > >From the same directory as that containing the ".deb" file, from an > Internet archive or from my local /var/cache/apt/archives or ???
Apt will check to see what the version is in its apt-sources, so that will be an FTP mirror if you've set up apt to use them. If it already had that version in /var/cache/apt/archives I believe it will re-use it.