Ubuntu Lucid Post-Install Updates - without Internet Access

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:52 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
> <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:22:56 +0200
> > Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> >
> :
> >> How do I perform the post-install updates / upgrades (nVidia Driver,
> >> for instance) without Internet access?
> >>
> :
> > From the description in Synaptic:
> >
> > apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager
> >
> :
> 
> If you are referring to the proprietary nVidia driver, you have to get
> that from nVidia directly and then put it on your net-free machine to
> install it.  If you mean the one in the Ubuntu repository, the above
> will probably work for you (but in my experience, the driver does not
> - I had to use the one from nVidia on both my machines).

I've had good success just using the hardware drivers app. Ric


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