Downloading a deb file from one of Ubuntu's repository and installing it on more than one system

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:37:04PM +0430, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote:
> How can I download a deb file and store it on my hard disk for future use? 
> For example, I want to download the deb file for JDK 1.5 and install it on 
> more than one system. Is this possible? Where are the deb files of the 
> Ubuntu's main/restricted/... files located on the web?

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/pool/

Use 'aptitude download PACKAGE-NAME' to download a single package
without having to navigate the above by hand.

Also, you might want to install apt-doc and read the "Using APT Offline"
document in /usr/share/doc/apt-doc/.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]