On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:44:36PM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: > Hi there > > Well, my computer has no internet connection itself, so I won't be able > to do "apt-get dist-update". I must download all packages I need at > university, put them on Iomega ZIP's, carry them home ant install them > from the ZIP's. Now, is there a way to find out > 1.) which packages have changed > 2.) which I have to download (I don't need to update the ones I don't > have installed yet;-)) > ? > > When all this is done, do I have to put them on my local harddisk in the > same directory structure as on the debian mirrors? > What will I have to add to my sources.list? > > This were quite a lot of questions, I know. Is there a howto on such a > way to make an update? Read the apt-offline guide (in /usr/share/doc/apt) or look at apt-zip, a package build to do what you want. iirc apt-zip implements some of the technics described in the apt-offline guide.
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