How install gcc with deb
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sat Nov 17 20:21:22 UTC 2018
At Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:53:32 -0500 (EST) Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>
> At Sat, 17 Nov 2018 18:12:00 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:35:24 +0100, Tom H wrote:
> > >I made the possibly wrong assumption that both computers are running
> > >18.04 :(
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:54:28 -0500 (EST), Robert Heller wrote:
> > >If this 'Other' computer also has Ubuntu 18.04 installed on it you can
> > >do:
> > >
> > >sudo apt-get update
> > >sudo apt-get -d install gcc binutils
> >
> > Wouldn't this require that on both machines the same Ubuntu release
> > is installed and that on both machines the same packages and packages'
> > versions are installed, thus the consequence of this a full-upgrade is
> > required instead of "-d install gcc binutils"?
>
> See the sentence you quoted: "If this 'Other' computer also has Ubuntu 18.04
> installed on it you can do:". Yes, the presumption is that the networked
> machine is running the same release as the non-networked machine.
Further, if one keeps the /var/cache/apt/archives and /var/lib/apt/lists/
directories sync'ed (eg rsync'ed via a sneakerneted thumb drive), then it is
possible to keep both machines sync'ed in terms on overall package versions.
As I said elsewhere, it is a sort of "poor man's" local mirror.
>
> >
> > IOW on the Internet machine run
> >
> > sudo apt update
> > sudo apt full-upgrade
> >
> > or just in case even
> >
> > sudo apt -o APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages=1 full-upgrade
> >
> > sudo cp -ai /var/cache/apt/archives/* /path/to/thumbdrive/
> >
> > and on the other machine
> >
> > sudo apt install /path/to/thumbdrive/*
> >
> > ?
> >
> >
>
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