Two Apt (Package) Questions

[Carthik Sharma]

On 10/14/05, Nuno Carvalho <rekconk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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


This will download the packages that need upgrades. I want to download
packages that are already installed, and up-to-date ? (for archival)

> 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.


Again, this will print the URIs of packages about to be upgraded, or
installed anew. It will not provide me with any info regarding the packages
I have installed.


I could do "man apt-get" to see this...


Well, I did read it, thrice over, and found no reasonable way to do what I
wanted, hence the request for information.

Carthik.

>
> best regards
> Nuno
> >
> >
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