I have tried to follow the description in /usr/doc/apt/offline.text.gz,
but I cannot get it to work.
What I do:
I take the status file from my offline computer to my online and then
I do what the description says about setting the APT_CONFIG variable
and my apt.conf is identical to the one in the doc. I then run
apt-get update and apt-get upgrade or apt-get install
task-helix-gnome or some other package.
I take with me the whole disc directory home and unpack it on my
computer. Then I do what it says but if I try apt-get .... upgrade it
says that it is going to install a lot of files, but when I press y
it just stops nothing happens. Other times it wants to download
eventhough I have the --no-download. So I always end up doing a lot
of dpkg -i -E *, dpkg --pending --configure, dpkg -r ... until all is
in place.
I also try the second aproach where one define where the archive is,
but apt-get only says it cannot find the package...
Is there somebody out there who has a working way of using apt-get on
both machines so that I can get this process less painful?
I'm using Debian testing on both machines now with some packages from
unstable:
gnat
gvd (great debugger!!)
ligtkada1-{art|dev|gnome|glade|gl}
mainly.
Thanks in advance.
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Preben Randhol ------------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ --
«For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.»
