On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Moz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have recently installed Lucid on a 64 bit computer, but I do not > have internet access at the speeds I need to install the additional > softwares I need. So I went to synaptic and selected all the softwares > I want to install and then clicked on apply, thus I got links to all > the files I need to download. A friend is downloading these files at a > broadband connection. I will install these files with > > sudo dpkg -i *.deb > > > I now need to install it on 2 other 64 bit computers, and create > identical installations. So I can use these downloads many times over. > > Is there anything wrong with following this method?
Instead of using 'dpkg -i' I suggest that you copy the .deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then use synaptic package to install software. dpkg is not a package manager, synaptic is. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
