Backing up cache archives

[ben]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:22:24 +0800
Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:

> So then if you wanted to recover them from a CD would you perform the 
> apt-cdrom add command?

if you just copy the files to cd as suggested above you'll have to use
the dpkg -i filename.deb to install the packages, as apt-get wont
recognise the packages without the extra info. what your looking for is
apt-move <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptMoveHowto>

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ben <ben at cvrse.com>