[ubuntu-in] Recovery in Ubuntu.

[Gora Mohanty]

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 13:28 +0000, venkatesh.nandakumar at yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
> Hi all,
> Some file/setting got changed in my comp..and i did some change that's
> caused it to boot a lot slower.. 5 times slower..
> Now that i've formatted.. its working fine. But i did manage to save
> all the cache..(of apt-archives).. 
> My question is
> 1. Is there any way i'll be able to use my saved archive files, and
> install instead of downloading it again.? i did  try copying it to the
> same folder
[...]

dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
(replace /var/cache/apt/archives with whatever directory you put
 the .deb files in), should do the job. Incidentally, "man dpkg",
or a Google search would probably have found this for you.

Regards,
Gora