howto 'apt-get update' offline

Santanu Chatterjee thisissantanu at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 07:27:09 UTC 2005


James Livingston wrote:
>apt-get --print-uris install somepackage

Magnus Therning wrote:
> Take a look at /var/lib/apt/lists/.

Thanks for the info. I already knew about the --print-uris option, but
did not realize that it would work for 'apt-get updat' as well.

So /var/lib/apt/lists/ is where the files downloaded by 'apt-get update' are
placed.

Thanks again. I hope I can do it now.

Regards,
Santanu




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