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Getting a list of what apt-get *would* get
Hi;
I want to do some very big downloads, but I am on a slow dial up connection at home.
I would like to download the stuff at a friends house, burn it onto a cd, bring it home, and use apt-get to install from cd.
How would I ( is it possible ) to tell apt-get to do something, but instead of downloading the files just make a list of the files it would have gotten for the job and the urls it would have gotten those files from?
Steve
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Get the list by using eterm (or konsole) so you can scroll and run this command :
apt-get install -s pkg-name
then you could grab all the pkgs from the debian.org package search.
later if you want to install them offline just copy all the debs to your /var/cache/apt/archives and then apt-get update and install
if you dont want to update then "apt-get -f install" *might* work too.
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Originally Posted by
Tech2k
Get the list by using eterm (or konsole) so you can scroll and run this command :
apt-get install -s pkg-name
then you could grab all the pkgs from the debian.org package search.
later if you want to install them offline just copy all the debs to your /var/cache/apt/archives and then apt-get update and install
if you dont want to update then "apt-get -f install" *might* work too.
Well, I want to install gnome and I want to upgrade knoppix to debian unstable.
THats a huge number of packages to search across debian.org and cut/past urls for.
Is there another method?
Steve
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just use testing/unstable of debian.org as the source.
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If commandline APT is confusing, I just use Synaptic for packages..
Maybe an option ?
Good luck.
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other suggestions ?
take your hard drive over to your firends..or your whole tower.If you dont know apt really well you will probally break your system doing that upgrade.
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
Another option is to try morphix.It is 100% pure sid (debian unstable) and the heavygui combined iso has gnome 2.
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