= Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19991122 1450]: > Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in > /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz
yeah i have read that, but it doesn't answer my question. the closest thing to what i want requires that you have apt-get on the connected machine. i don't (it's a windows machine with wget). to repeat: i need to manually download the Packages.gz files from the archives listed in sources.list, which isn't a problem. but what i don't know how to do is make apt-get `read' those files an update itself so `apt-get upgrade' uses the newer Packages.gz files. thanks anyways.. -vinny .
