Rony wrote:
You could create a test machine in the city where net is good and save all the deb packages from your /var/cache/apt/archives into a CD. Then either add the CD to the system as a repo or paste all the packages into the target machine's archives folder. Apt-get will go to the net for record keeping but will find the package already downloaded. Feisty has an option to add cds as a repos as soon as they are auto detected. It then brings up the gui package manager. That should be the simpler way.
There a package called APT on CD <http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/>. Its available in the repository in Ubuntu.
From Synaptic's description: CD-based repository creator for packages downloaded via APT Tool for the creation of a CD-based repository containing all packages downloaded via apt-get. Helpful for a post-installation on several machines or a simple backup method to re-install the system. After you've created the CD, you will be able to add it as a repository, as if it were an Ubuntu 'CD 2'. To run it, type "aptoncd" in a terminal. Or alternatively, via System -> Administration -> APTonCD menu entry. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
