Rob VanFleet wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:00:55PM -0500, Christopher W Aiken wrote: > > I want to install Debian 2.2 to a second machine. I have > > used "apt-get" to get and install a whole lot of stuff > > (over 65MB of files) on my first machine. After I install > > on my second machine can I copy "/var/cache/apr/archives" from > > the first to my second machine and do a "dpkg -i *.deb" to > > install all this info? Is there a better way? What > > would be the "prefered way"?
Is it common for people to keep all the debs after they've been installed. I always delete mine (or rather I allow dselect to do it). If I kept all the debs that I've installed I think it would take up a whole lot of disk space. -- Brian J. Stults Doctoral Candidate Department of Sociology University at Albany - SUNY Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 Web: http://www.albany.edu/~bs7452
