Hi all,
On 7/12/06, Kumar Appaiah <kumar.appaiah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12/07/06, Prashanth Mohan <prashmohan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Shrinivasan T wrote:now):
Is there anyway to copy those packages from my pc to them?
In synaptec, i choosed the option not to delete the files after
downloading.
where will they be? ccan i use them for other systems?
these files would be in /var/cache/apt/archives
you could manually copy these files to your friends system and try to
install them using dpkg. `dpkg -i <file>'
As for your specific requirement, there is work in progress (the first
line will probably solve your needs but it is a little complex as of
However, if they still maintain a level of Debian compatibility,
dpkg-scanpackages is the way to go. It generates a Packages file,
which can be combined with APT to do the dependency work.
HTH.
Kumar
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Indian Insititute of Technology Madras,
Chennai - 600036
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