On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 00:56, Russell Davie wrote: > Hi > I want to update the packages on my laptop and wish to do this locally > from the desktop machine. > what's the best way to do this?
Apt stores its packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/ . The immediate solution would be to copy the contents of this directory from the desktop machine to your laptop. Apt will check there before retrieving a package from one of its listed sources. (this is also a very dodgy but very efficient way to bootstrap a new machine) If you want to do it right first go ;-), then look in to setting up apt-proxy on your desktop machine. It'll run as an archive proxy, and cache all downloaded packages locally. Very cool for multiple debian machines on a LAN. Once it's set up you can import the packages from your local apt cache, then just run apt on the laptop normally. > where would be a good place to go to find out? SLUG! ;-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
