methods to download all the available packages for x86-hardy

[Andrew Farris]

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 15:51 -0400, Wu Zhou wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am doing some statistical analysis on the Ubuntu packages. Do we have
> methods to download all the available packages for a specific Ubuntu
> version and machine?

check out "debmirror" (sudo apt-get debmirror) then "man debmirror" This
should allow you to make an offline copy of an entire ubuntu repo, you
can even pick what repo (i.e. main, universe, multiverse), what bit-type
(32-bit, 64-bit, etc)

> Also, anybody can give a basic prediction about how many packages are
> there, and how many disk spaces are needed to store them, is 20G enough?
> Many thanks!

i think you need ~40GB, but I'm not sure... I suppose it depends on what
you're downloading.

Hope you've got a fast internet connection!


-- 
Andrew
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