... in order to update them from a local drive in the future if I need to ~ I recently went: ~ apt-get update Ign http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian.org ./ Release.gpg Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org stable Release.gpg Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing Release.gpg [835B] ... Get:43 http://ftp.de.debian.org experimental/non-free Packages [1120B] Fetched 19.3MB in 1min 51s (174kB/s) Reading package lists... Done ~ and ~ apt-get -d -o Dir::Cache::Archives=<local directory path> upgrade r...@microknoppix:~# apt-get -d -o Dir::Cache::Archives="/media/sda2/inst/sw/deb/arc" upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: ... The following packages will be upgraded: ... 282 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 85 not upgraded. Need to get 355MB of archives. After this operation, 13.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main libexpat1 2.0.1-4+lenny3 [132kB] ... Get:282 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main tftpd-hpa 5.0-10 [43.6kB] Fetched 355MB in 34min 4s (174kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode r...@microknoppix:~# ~ then I editted /etc/apt/sorce.list leaving as the only uncommented line: ~ deb file://<local directory path> stable main contrib non-free ~ so that all files are grabbed from there ~ I did install the flashplayer plugin for firefox by going ~ # dpkg --install libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libnspr4-dev. (Reading database ... 88316 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libnspr4-dev (from libnspr4-dev_4.7.1-5_i386.deb) ... Setting up libnspr4-dev (4.7.1-5) ... ~ # dpkg --install install_flash_player_10_linux.deb (Reading database ... 88419 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace adobe-flashplugin 10.0.42.34-1 (using install_flash_player_10_linux.deb) ... Unpacking replacement adobe-flashplugin ... Setting up adobe-flashplugin (10.0.42.34-1) ... ~ because it only depended on a single dev package no depth or conflicting dependency ramifications ~ Of course I knew I wasn't going to be that lucky with Kdevelop, Kate, Openoffice, ... ;-) ~ I need to: ~ 1) use apt-get and let it handle all dependencies and ~ 2) somehow make apt-get leave all downloaded deb archives in the <local directory path> I have ~ How can you do that? ~ Thank you lbrtchx ~
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