local dir apt-get files

[Travis Newman]

Johan wrote:

>Hi,
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>I have ubuntu warty installed and with apt-get updated fully plus with kde. Now fully updated to hoary.
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>While updating all these files get stored here .. /mnt/hda7/var/cache/apt/archives .. now I rsync them to
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> /mnt/sda14/ubuntu-updates/*.deb .
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>. there is 1007.4 MB of *.deb files stored here.
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>Now for experiment and learning I installed ubuntu on sda8 & 9. (This is a SATA drive and I am trying to see any speed improvements.)
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>OK .. now I would like to use those files to update this new install to whatever apt-get can.
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>Now I have downloaded apt-get howto's and studied these .. but I don't seem to get it to work. Now I am sure it is easy once you get the feeling of it.
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>Now I would appreciate if some one kind with the time and know-how to kindly explain step by step how this can be achieved, please.
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>Using all those files in../mnt/sda14/ubuntu-updates/*.deb
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>((for me this in mdk would have been easy  ..  because I know exactly how the workings of urpmi  .. actually I already done this to a similar install on sda))
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>Thanks
>  
>
Couldn't you just use a symlink, linking /var/cache/apt/archives in the 
new ubuntu install to /mnt/sda14/ubuntu-updates ?
I don't really know the inner working of apt, but I know that when I try 
to reinstall something, I never have to redownload it, so I'd THINK that 
the symlink would work.