"Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:16:09PM +1300, Richard Hector ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > After apt-get dis-upgrading one box, am I ok to just tar up > > /var/cache/apt/archives and dump it on the other? > > Yes. > > Run an 'update' after anyway, you should find there's little changed.
Thanks. I did that (before I got your reply), but I'm guessing I did something (else) wrong, because my system ended up horribly broken. Or at least X was. So I backed up /home/richard to another machine and installed woody from scratch, from the boot floppies. It's working nicely now :-) Well - mostly. But I'll leave that for another thread. Richard