"David Z. Maze" wrote: > > Joerg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > JJ> NO, you misunderstood my question. I know what to do with the debs, once > JJ> I have them downloaded. I want to know how to tell the offline-box which > JJ> debs to use without doing apt-get update (because it's > JJ> impossible). > > You can just copy the package files from one machine to the other and > install them using 'dpkg --install filename.deb'. >
This is ok for installing one or two packages, but it is near impossible for a dist-upgrade. joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
