If you do: apt-get -s upgrade
it will tell you what it is going to do without actually doing it. Pipe the output into a file and take it to your friends house. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > Hi, > > Not answering but asking :-| > How could I get a list of needed packages for a dist-upgrade > without downloading it over dial-up? > I'll explain: suppose I want to upgrade my slink system. My > connection is a 56k (old fashioned too). It's impossible to do this > over dial-up. > So I would like to know what packages should be needed, go to a > colleague that has a 10Mbps connection, download the packages to one or two > zip disks and copy the packages to /var/cache/apt at home. > Is this possible? > > []s > Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" > http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 > http://www.revistalinux.com.br > > ------------------------------ >
