andrei raevsky wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I only have dial-up so each update or application downloads comes > *very* slowly and I really would hate to have to do it all over again. > Also - I would love to have the possibility to install gNewSense 1.1 > on another computer and just stick a CD in to add all the other > applications previously downloaded. > > Now, I know that my downloaded files are in /var/cache/apt/archives files. > > Also - Paul kindly sent me the DVD of the full gNewSense 1.1 sources > (along with a gNewSense 1.1 and a gNewSense-KDE 1.1) ==>>which, by the > way, I am would gladly snailmail to anyone needing them<<== > > So help me out here: which of the two should I use, the > /var/cache/apt/archives archives which I could burn to a CD or the DVD > of the sources and, even more importantly, *how* do I use them. > > I thought of mixing external and internal sources (with a CD with > /var/cache/apt/archives burned to it) but Paul warned me that it is a > very bad idea to mix sources. Is there any way to add either 1) the > downloaded application after the first install of gNewSense or 2) how > could I best use the gNewSense source archive DVD Paul sent me? Or is > there no safe way to do this and is it the *only* option to 'apt-get > update && apt-get dist-upgrade'? > Supporting a friend who had dial up I used to do something like this: mkdir ~andrei/apt-stuff cp -R /var/cache/apt/archives ~andrei/apt-stuff tar cvf apttar23Feb2007.tar /apt-stuff
then when I installed the freshly made box I would populate the the /var/cache/apt/archives/ with the tarball thus: cd /media/cdrom0; sudo cp * /var/cache/apt/archives/. then I would do: cd /var/cache/apt/archives tar cvf apttar23Feb2007 sudo apt-get update and then start installing the stuff I wanted - it is messy the other way that is suggested is "apt-zip" I have not used it myself as the need to do these things has diminished. To install the copy of it you might burn separately you can do this: cd to wherever you have the program.deb sudo dpkg -i apt-zipFullVersionNumber.deb Regards, Paul _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
