Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget

[Hugo Heden]

Hi again,

> Now, how do I continue? How do I tell update-manager to continue, but
> using the deb-files that I have manually downloaded?

The obvious solution seems to be to copy the manually downloaded
deb-files to the same location on the filesystem that update-manager
has placed all the other gutsy-deb-files, and then just restart
update-manager.. Right?

Any ideas on where that would be?

Hugo Heden


On 10/29/07, Hugo Heden <hugoheden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good day all,
>
> I have a problem with upgrading to Gutsy -- the update-manager tells
> me [1] that it fails to fetch some 30 files (of the 1200 it needed).
> So update-manager cancels the upgrade, and reset /etc/apt/sources.list
> to point to feisty.
>
> (I suspect that this has to do with the (stupid) virus scanner in my
> company firewall.. I've tried using several different Software
> Sources, but to no avail.)
>
> However, I can download the 30 package files (deb-files) using wget,
> so I actually have them on my file system.
>
> Now, how do I continue? How do I tell update-manager to continue, but
> using the deb-files that I have manually downloaded?
>
> Do I for example somehow "select" the downloaded deb-files using
> dpkg-something? And then restart update-manager?
>
> Or should skip update-manager and try modifying my sources.list
> manually and then running apt-get dist-upgrade?
>
> Or do I create a "local apt-repository" on my file system containing
> the deb-files, and add that repository to my sources.list..? (Hope
> this is not the way to do it.. sounds tricky)
>
> Any hints much appreciated!
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Hugo Heden
>
>
> [1] "Could not download the upgrades. The upgrade aborts now. Please
> check your internet connection or installation media and try again. "
>