On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Robin Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> These days Im installing Ubuntu 9.04 on a lot of comps. But the problem is
> my broadband connection charges is proportional to the amount of MB I
> download. Thus I have to download the same program again and again from the
> internet for each installation. For example, VideoLAN offers no .deb package
> for Debian/ Ubuntu on its website which I can download once and install on
> different computers.
>  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html
>
> I like synaptic package manger in Ubuntu and the concept of packages in
> Linux. But its very difficult to find the installation file which it
> downloads from the internet which it uses subsequently to configure the
> given program. Is there any way to locate the installation file (eg .deb
> file) through synaptic package manger so that I dont have to download the
> same file again and again.
>

refer this http://tinyurl.com/installvlc
this is for offline installation of VLC and will work for all packages but
will use internet one time.

if still some problem reply.



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Abhishek Srivastava
MCA-3rd Yr
NIT Durgapur
India

I blog at : http://nitabhi.wordpress.com

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