Re: reusing deb files

[Angelo Bertolli]

Robert Storey wrote:

I'm wondering if there is a way that I can "reuse" deb files on another 
machine. Let me explain more clearly:

If, for example, I do "apt-get install mmv", the package 
mmv_1.01b-12.2_i386.deb will be downloaded into 
directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then installed.

That's fine, but I have several computers running Debian. Let's say I copy 
this deb file onto another machine, also to 
directory /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then reissue the command "apt-get 
install mmv". What happens is that the deb file is ignored and the file gets 
downloaded again, and then installed.
 

That doesn't sound right to me.  Did you do an apt-get update on both 
machines first?  (Of course you did.)  I don't know, but I did this with 
the packages on the CD (just copied them to /var/cache/apt/archives) and 
it worked for me without having to download them.



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