> Hi, > > I've got 2 debian installations. Now after some while I updated one of > it in dselect to the newest packages. This was a 100MB packages > download from the internet. > > After installing the packages I was asked whether the newly downloaded > package files should be deleted. I answered no in the hope to use them > to update the other installation. > > This is now my question, where are these downloaded packages located > in the file system and how do I tell the other installation that I > have these updates? >
>/var/cache/apt/archives, if you pay close attention apt tells you this when it >asks about remving the packages. Just copy the debs to the same dir on the >other box and apt will only download missing packages or updated ones. If you do this a lot couldn't you just put /var on a seperate partition and have both installations share the .debs and wouldnt that resolve having to copy them over?
