I have a really slow Internet connection and most often just getting the package list updated (doing sudo apt-get update) is difficult. Getting the updated packaged for a dist-upgrade is an altogether difficult and different matter, but can often be accomplished if the sudo apt-get update has succeeded, in part because I use debdelta and also because I can get synaptic to generate a list of files to download, then use that list to download from another machine with fast internet.
I have looked at options like aptonCD, aptzip and apt-offline but could not get any to work. So this post is for basically 3 things: 1. Can someone explain (or point me to something online) how a sources.list file (in /etc/apt/) is translated into a list of uri's of package lists/.diff files and gpg keys to be downloaded and updated in the /var/lib/apt/lists/ and then to a list of packages that can be upgraded. 2. Is there a script or something else that works to update/upgrade a non-networked machine by downloading the necessary packages from another machine that is not necessarily Linux/deb based. 3. Apt-offline can be an option but I have no idea how to get it to work on another machine that has internet. The guide available for it is unfortunately not very helpful as I have no clue about python that is a requirement. -- Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
