howto 'apt-get update' offline

[Santanu Chatterjee]

Hi everybody,

I have a Ubuntu (Hoary) box at home without any internet connection. However,
at our university, we have a 2Mbps line. In a recent thread here, there was
a discussion about using Ubuntu on computers without internet connection.

In this respect, I have an idea. Instead of downloading an entire archive and 
making installable CD/DVDs out of it, why not use apt-get itself ?

For this, first thing I require is to be able to do an 'apt-get update' offline.
What I intend to do is: get a list of files that will be downloaded
and knowledge
of where exactly they will be placed by the 'apt-get update' command.
Once I have
this info, I can easily use wget or silimar to download all those files from
another connected computer, carry those to my system, and get its package info
uptodate. Then I can use apt-get to get a list of packages to be downloaded to
install some software. I can then use wget to download those software from
the connected computer and carry them home. This should work. What do you
think?

Anyway, I am now stuck at apt-get update. Can you tell me which files are
downloaded by the update, and where they are to be placed?

I was thinking that when I successfully complete even a single package
installation,
then I will write this entire thing as a HOWTO or similar (if there is
none already).

Regards,
Santanu