Software repository

[Philip]

Perhaps he can burn CD's at work where he does have access to the internet
then carry the repositories home to his netless machine.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nathan Sprangers" <wolfe at cwazy.co.uk>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: Software repository


> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 09:05 +0200, maxim at x-i.net wrote:
> > Hello Ubuntu-users,
> >
> > I am a relative newcomer to debian-based linux environments so please
excuse my
> > ignorance.
> > I wondered if any of you have a straight forward solution to setting up
a
> > software repository on my harddrive, as I do not have an internet
connection at
> > home, and I don't know how to point apt or other package managers to a
folder
> > and get files from there instead of from an ftp address.
> >
> > Yours ignoramously,
> > Maxim.
>
> I don't quite understand the utility in having a local repository if you
> have no way to download software.  Having a local repository would
> require that you be able to download software/source from somewhere else
> (build & package the source) first.  Probably all you want to do is
> comment out the online repository lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list
> file (tells apt where to look for packages).
>
> Maybe I'm not understanding what you want to do, but that would be my
> solution for a machine without internet access.
> ~Nathan
>
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