Robert Kerr wrote: > I'm using apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade to slink. It gives me about 90 > MB to download. I'd like to find a list of the files it needs and then > download them at school, where my internet connection is much faster. So, > my question is: where does apt-get keep a list of the files it needs?
I wouldn't know actually, but there is a way to get them quite easily. Use the command 'apt-get -s dist-upgrade' to get a list of packages apt is going to install, for example: The following NEW packages will be installed: libglib1.1.13 libgimp1.1.1 libgtk1.1.13 The following packages have been kept back locales timezones libc6-dev libwww-perl libc6 15 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Inst lilo Inst nvi Inst modutils Inst ispell Inst ibritish Inst make Inst autoconf Inst debhelper Inst debian-keyring Inst fdutils Inst libgimp1.1.1 Inst libglib1.1.13 Inst libgtk1.1.13 Inst gimp1.1 Inst icewm Inst lesstifg Inst raidtools Inst vim Conf lilo [snip] In this output, grep for ^Inst and then grep in the available file (/var/lib/dpkg/available) for *packagename_* and pipe that output through 'grep frozen' (slink==frozen), Now you'll get a list of filenames in the archive. And that's the list you need, I think. HTH, -Remco
