On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Jasbir Khehra <jasbi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM, nagendra prasad > <nagendra802...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I had Ubuntu Studio installed on my system. Now I have removed and Installed >> it again. But before I did that I took a backup of update folder >> '/var/cache/apt/archives' where system downloaded all its updates. Now I >> want to install all updates again but I don't want it to connect with >> internet and take much time. So, is their anything can install all updates >> all at once instead of clicking on one by one?? >> >> Thanks, > Assuming it is the same version of Ubuntu Studio, do the following steps > - dump your backup into '/var/cache/apt/archives/' > - Run $ sudo aptitude update (This will require internet access - as > you dont have the latest repo listing which are stored in > /var/lib/apt/lists/) > - Run $ sudo aptitude upgrade ( This will update all the 'currently' > installed packages to the latest version available in the repo, if you > have the same deb version in your backup it wont require to download > the newer version from the internet) > > You still will have to install those packages which are not installed > by default during the basic install but you have installed them after > installation , in your previous system.
Since you have all the packages of /var/cache/apt/archives stored,you can just restore them to the /var/cache/apt/archives of your newly installed system,and do dpkg -i * after cd'ing to /var/cache/apt/archives. Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in