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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Robin Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sharad, > as to your suggestion I followed your advice. But I found > no "apt" directory in the folder "var". Does Ubuntu store it temporarily > which is erased after synaptic package manager is closed? > correct directory is /var/cache/apt as said by Sharad not /var/apt and yes there is an option which removes packages automatically, but i have doubt if it erase apt directory. > 2009/6/10 Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]> > >> >> > 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. >> >> The files are downloaded in /var/apt/cache/archive . If you copy deb >> files from this directory (on the PC where you have downloaded them >> already), that should do the trick for you. >> >> -- Regards Sumit Sati Josh Billings<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/josh_billings.html> - "Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
