Hello RichardA (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my > install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. > Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many > packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a > local cache? Like urmpi, apt uses a local cache to save downloaded packages. You can find them in /var/cache/apt/archives. If you reinstall you can copy the files you saved from the cache back and after updating the package lists, apt will automatically use them instead of downloading them again, at least if there isn't a newer version on the server. You can also delete obsolete files from the cache using the auoclean function of apt-get. You might also want to take a look at apt-move (you can get package descriptions from <http://packages.debian.org>, but it seems to be down right now). best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 Registered Linux User #267976 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
