Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget

[Derek Broughton]

Hugo Heden wrote:

> On 10/29/07, Wulfy <wulfmann at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hugo Heden wrote:
>> > 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
>> The only thing I can think of which might work (though others may have
>> more knowledge than I do) is when you've moved the debs to the archive,
>> run:
>>
>> sudo dpkg -i *.deb
>>
>> which will install all the debs.  I'm not sure that would work...  if
>> there were dependency problems (old debs?) in there, it might bomb out
>> and leave you in a more difficult state than you're in now.  :@(
>>
> 
> Oh, now I see what you mean.. Copy the files to
> /var/cache/apt/archives .. and then use dpkg to install all the files
> in there.. No, hmmmm, I have not tried that.. Perhaps I will, unless
> there are any other suggestions..?

No, really, don't do that.  /var/cache/apt/archives is where _apt_ keeps
package files, not someplace for you to keep them.
-- 
derek