On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 05:01:02PM -0400, Narasimhamurthy Giridhar wrote: | Hi | I need to upgrade XFree86 from 3.3.6 to 4.something. Wuld it be possible | to write it down on a CD and put in on my system and use it. I dont have a | net connection at home. I can only dowload in my univ. And i need the | ugrade cos 3.3.6 doesnt support i810 chipset that I have.
As long as you get all the packages that you need to satisfy dependencies then you can do this. The hard part is dependency resolution, which is why apt + a net connection is really nice. Also, you will need to use 'dpkg -i' on the .deb files after you download them. -D
