On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:14, Peter Hardy wrote: > Apt stores its packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/ . The immediate > solution would be to copy the contents of this directory from the > desktop machine to your laptop. Apt will check there before retrieving > a package from one of its listed sources. > (this is also a very dodgy but very efficient way to bootstrap a new > machine)
Mounting the directory over NFS is another option, but will be a pain if your not on the network. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
