Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget

[Hugo Heden]

Hi,

On 10/29/07, Wulfy <wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Hugo Heden wrote:
> > 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
> The standard place for downloaded debs is /var/cache/apt/archives ... at
> least it was for apt-based front-ends.  I don't use the new-fangled GUIs.
>

Thanks, Wulfmann.

Yes, that seems to be the only place on my computer containing deb-files.

So I tried copying the manually downloaded deb-files to that location,
and re-ran update-manager.

That did not work, it seems that update-manager *recreates*
/var/cache/apt/archives from some internal data-base..? So the
deb-files I had copied disappeared from /var/cache/apt/archives, and
update-manager tried to get them from the net again. And failed.

So I modified my sources.list to point to gutsy instead of feisty, and
(again) copied the manually down-loaded deb-files to
/var/cache/apt/archives. And then I ran apt-get dist-upgrade .. But
that did not work either, because apt-get did exactly the same thing
that update-manager did -- it seems to *recreate*
/var/cache/apt/archives -- without the manually copied deb-files.

So obviously there is an internal database that apt-get/update-manager
uses, and I would want to *manually* add the manually downloaded
deb-files to that database..

Any ideas?

Hugo Heden