On Monday 30 June 2008 21:38:24 Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It it would seem to me to be a civil act to cut another CD so that I can > > give them all the updates and extra programs I have downloaded - some > > 500MB - so they don't have to suffer the experience of updating over > > dial-up. > > Cool. Copy everything in your /var/cache/apt/archives into theirs, > then they can run an update ... their index will update properly, and > all the packages will already be downloaded, therefore no extra > bandwidth will be used.
Many thanks, but: While making the .iso file for transfer to the CD, I now notice that the archive of .deb files now has several, nay many, old .deb files which have been superseded. Is there some nifty utility with which I could purge the old junk files? -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
