Thanks Onkar, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]>wrote:
> There are various solutions. > > 1. You can use aptoncd to create a CD of the packages installed on > machine A (with internet access) and then use that CD on machine B > (without internet access). This is what I tried and had thought that this would solve my problem. However, packages like Inkscape, Scribus, Opera etc will not get copied for some reason. > > 2. You can manually copy files from /var/lib/apt/lists and > /var/cache/apt/archives from machine A to machine B and then simply > run the apt-get install <package> commands on machine B. I have not tried this but I can surely try this. > > 3. If you are feeling brave enough, then you can try using apt-offline > - https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~apt-offline/apt-offline/dev. It is > a kind of service package creator for UBuntu. The way it works is, you > create a profile of machine B using the tool, take that profile to > machine A and retrive updated package lists as per this profile, > select and download packages, create a service pack. Then you take the > service pack to machine B and install it using the tool. I will have to try this to learn. Moz
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