On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 07:49:28AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:23:34PM +, Albretch Mueller
> was heard to say:
> > I would like to just carry my external drive, plug it in and do my
> > thing. You are not supposed to be setting up servers in networks you
> > don
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 04:23:34PM +, Albretch Mueller
was heard to say:
> I would like to just carry my external drive, plug it in and do my
> thing. You are not supposed to be setting up servers in networks you
> don't own. "Simplicity" is not only good in a spiritual/Franciscan
> way. The
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... I editted /etc/apt/sources.list
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// __ http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
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2.2 How to use APT locally
Sometimes you have lots of packages .deb that you would like to use
APT to install so that the dependencies would be automatically solved.
To do that create a
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I am benefiting from your comments, but I was originally thinking
about a directory/file-based approach which apt-get seems to be
capable of and source.list documents
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I would like to just carry my external drive, plug it in and do my
thing. You are not supposed to be setting up servers in net
On 2010-01-12 at 10:28:48 -0500, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> I don't know how to do it with apt-cache, but to find all installed
> packages with aptitude is easy:
>aptitude search ~i
> then
>aptitude show packagename
> will show package information, both for installed and not-installed
> pac
Stephen Powell schreef:
On 2010-01-12 at 06:33:14 -0500, Clive Standbridge wrote:
apt-get/aptitude update do retrieve the package descriptions. You can
view them with e.g.
apt-cache show xxx
I'm not in a position to test this right now, but I seem to remember that
when I used "apt-get upda
On 2010-01-12 at 06:33:14 -0500, Clive Standbridge wrote:
> apt-get/aptitude update do retrieve the package descriptions. You can
> view them with e.g.
> apt-cache show xxx
I'm not in a position to test this right now, but I seem to remember that
when I used "apt-get update" or "aptitude updat
> I prefer "dselect update"
> over "apt-get update" or "aptitude update" because it downloads
> package
> descriptions for all available packages, not just installed packages.
> I can then use, for example,
>
> dpkg-query -p xxx|less
>
> where xxx is the name of any package, installed or not, and
On 2010-01-11 at 14:59:19 -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> 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
> I have
> ~
> How can you do that?
I feel inadequate to respond to this post, but perhaps I
... in order to update them from a local drive in the future if I need to
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I recently went:
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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.
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