Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in
/usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz
Abstract
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This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment,
specificaly a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades.
*- On 22 Nov, Vincent Murphy wrote about "offline apt-get update?"
> i have a potato machine which doesn't have access to the outside world
> except through a windows machine on the same ethernet segment. moving the
> outside-world-access to the potato machine and proxying for the windows
> machine is not an option, and installing wingate on the windows machine
> would be a serious dent in my pride. ;)
>
> i would like to know how i can manually perform an `apt-get update' on my
> machine. i presume that i need to:
>
> - download a Packages.gz file for each line in sources.list;
> - `add' said file to apt.
>
> has anybody done this before? ideally i would like to get a list of
> absolute URLs for the Package.gz files which i can give to wget. i can do
> this for a `apt-get upgrade' by doing
>
> apt-get -yy --print-uris upgrade | awk '{print $1}'
>
> any suggestions would be gratefully appreciate.
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