Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
Hi. I'm still working on this un-networked laptop. It's looking
pretty good, now I'm ready to put the audio apps on it that I use.
I made a list from Synaptic of the packages I have on the desktop, and
now I'm hoping to download all the packages and put them on my flash
drive.
If I put "apt-get -d install pkg", I just get a message that it is
already the latest version. Is there a way around this? Maybe with
dpkg? I couldn't find any options that accounted for this.
The only thing I can think of- that doesn't involve making monstrous
lists of dependencies and downloading all the debs individually- would
be to uninstall all these packages, then run apt-get -d install, save
all the debs to my flash drive, and then reinstall them.
Is there some other way to fool apt into thinking the packages aren't
there?
-Chuckk
I think the problem is that apt on the laptop doesn't know about the new
packages because you dont have an up to date package list on you laptop.
I know of two ways around this.
The first is a hack I use. Copy the package files from
/var/lib/apt/list and the contents files from /var/cache/apt/ from the
desktop to the laptop and place the deb files in the
/var/cache/apt/archives directory on the laptop and apt-get should find
them as normal. Also put the entries from the sources.list on the
desktop onto the laptop and do 'apt-get update' this will fail because
you dont have an internet connection and just use the list you copied over.
The proper way, which I could never get to work for some reason is to
create a local repository on your flash disk using dpkg-scanpackages and
put this in your sources.list on the laptop. You may want to google a
bit more info on this.
HTH
Wackojacko
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