On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Easwar Hariharan <[email protected]>wrote:
> <snip /> > Since you have all the packages of /var/cache/apt/archives stored,you > can just restore them to the /var/cache/apt/archives of your newly > installed system,and do dpkg -i * after cd'ing to > /var/cache/apt/archives. > so here's the problem with this: dpkg will process the .deb files in order. therefore, if a previous package has a later package as a dependancy, it will refuse to install. In theory, if you keep running the command enough times, all packages will get installed. In practice, I have completely buggered an install (of Sidux) trying to do this :-D It might work, but you may want to read up about it before trying it - I have done evil things to my system trying this in the past. Best of luck, Sanjay > > Regards, > Easwar > Registered Linux user #442065 > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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