On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:41:00 -0500 "andrei raevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. > Burn those .deb files to a cd, if you re-install then simply move those files back to var/cache/apt/archives and they will be used as long as a updated version is not available in the repo. If you want ONLY to use those then comment out everything in sources.list, update, and then install and it will be pulled only from those files. No problem should arise from doing this. (another method) If you want a true apt repository mirror composed of those packages on a CD that you can add to sources.list using 'apt-cdrom add' then you can use the apt-move utility and it will create the repository structure and you then you can burn it to a cd or host it locally or whatever. Be aware you should look at and tweak the apt-move config file BEFORE using it or it could do things that you do not want it to do. > 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<<== Not helpful in regards to re-installing and updating downloaded packages unless you want to compile from source and/or create your own debs since I assume that is the "sources" that were sent. > > Many thanks for any help, > > Andrei > many welcomes....if it is any help! Dean! _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
