Two Apt (Package) Questions

[Nuno Carvalho]

Carthik Sharma wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am in the process of getting ready to upgrade to Breezy, and have a 
> couple of questions:
> 
> 1) What is the command to download (only download) all .debs of all 
> installed packages?
> The idea is to have a copy of all the .debs in a cdrom, since this would 
> mean I have all those that I want. I had run apt-get autoclean once so 
> my apt cache is almost empty now.
> 
just add "-d" to your apt-get call

eg: apt-get -d upgrade

> 2) I have used various sources over time, so is there a command to list 
> which .deb source a particular package was downloaded from? Text file 
> output showing all packages installed and where they came from would be 
> great. I know that dpkg --get-selections gives me a list of installed 
> packages and their state, but it does not provide info about where the 
> package was installed from.
use "--print-uris", instead of fetching the files apt will print deb's URL.

I could do "man apt-get" to see this...
> 
> Thank you,
> Carthik.

best regards
Nuno
> 
> 
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> University of Central Florida
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> 

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