On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 00:06, andrej hocevar wrote: > Some days ago I've apt-get upgraded my system and saved all the > downloaded files, ie packages, that were to be upgraded. I saved > them in order to give them to a friend with a slow connection -- so, > I thought, he can upgrade the packages we have in common. > > Somehow, we were puzzled: what does one have to put into his > sources.list, since those files really are only packages, not sorted > in any order and not in the special directory structure. > Any ideas?
Drop the .deb files into /var/cache/apt/archives/ and run: $ apt-get upgrade --no-download --ignore-missing Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] diary: http://advogato.org/person/RossBurton PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]