[ubuntu-in] Need to install previous updates

[Sanjay Bhangar]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Easwar Hariharan
<meindian523 at gmail.com>wrote:


> <snip />
> Since you have all the packages of /var/cache/apt/archives stored,you
> can just restore them to the /var/cache/apt/archives of your newly
> installed system,and do dpkg -i * after cd'ing to
> /var/cache/apt/archives.
>

so here's the problem with this: dpkg will process the .deb files in order.
therefore, if a previous package has a later package as a dependancy, it
will refuse to install. In theory, if you keep running the command enough
times, all packages will get installed. In practice, I have completely
buggered an install (of Sidux) trying to do this :-D
It might work, but you may want to read up about it before trying it - I
have done evil things to my system trying this in the past.
Best of luck,
Sanjay


>
> Regards,
> Easwar
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