Re: Using apt offline

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. try apt-zip! bye Christian

RE: Using apt offline

From: Christian Surchi On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 01:57:31PM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote: 1. apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only on one machine 2. Transfer the downloaded files to all machines 3. apt-get dist-upgrade --no-download on all the machines. try apt-zip! That seems to work based

Re: Using apt offline

Moore, Paul said: The only difficulty I have is with step (2) - is it enough to transfer the /var/cache/apt/archives directory? If not, what is the best way? Almost, but not quite. I share /var/cache/apt over NFS here and it works, provided that I do an apt-get update on each machine. If you

RE: Using apt offline

From: Pichai Asokan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have done precisely this. That's good to know. Looks like I may have guessed right... However, I ran the apt-get update on all the machines. I do not know exactly how to duplicate that on other machines. I'm guessing that I copy