Ron Rademaker wrote:
>
> I don't thinthat'll work because the directory structure isn't correct, on
> a mirror you got
> /dists//[main|contrib|non-free]/binary-i386/[base|admin|net|etc]/package.deb
> you don't have that with your downloaded packages, the best thing you can
> do is go to the downlo
Idea!! Just make sure all the .debs are in /var/cache/apt/archives and
do an upgrade, apt finds out that it's not needed to download everything
so, it doesn't!!
Ron Rademaker
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> There should be a way, because otherwise there is no reason for the f
There should be a way, because otherwise there is no reason for the folder
/var/cache/apt/archives to exist
Ron Rademaker wrote:
> I don't thinthat'll work because the directory structure isn't correct, on
> a mirror you got
> /dists//[main|contrib|non-free]/binary-i386/[base|admin|net|etc]/p
Upgrade I want -is there any particular reason why you say downgrade? Now, of
course, apt-get
should probably be able to handle both.
Any way, thanks for the indication, that will save me the trouble of trying it
through
apt-get!
Anyone knows who the mantainer for apt-get is? can you forward it t
I don't thinthat'll work because the directory structure isn't correct, on
a mirror you got
/dists//[main|contrib|non-free]/binary-i386/[base|admin|net|etc]/package.deb
you don't have that with your downloaded packages, the best thing you can
do is go to the downloaded .deb and do dpkg -i *.deb, yo
Well, lets put the question in a more general manner: What steps should be
followed to
avoid this problem in the future? That is, is there any way of keeping the
downloaded
upgrade with the dependency structure and everything else, so that in case of a
problem
the system can be restored by: 1) I
You should change your sources.list and use file:// instead of ftp or http
to install from a local file, however I think the directory structure
won't be good AND ther won't be any packages.gz, furthermore you should
find some kind of force-downgrade options in apt-get. I think you should
use dpkg
I had installed slink 2.1, which I upgraded through a my moden
connection after a few days to frozen. I made a backup of the
/var/cache/apt/archives folder in to another partition. After that I
messed up my system, so I had to reinstall 2.1 again. How can I apt-get
upgrade my system to the previous
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