<div>On 10/14/05, Nuno Carvalho <<a href="mailto:rekconk@gmail.com">rekconk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Carthik Sharma wrote: > On 10/14/05, *Nuno Carvalho* <<a href="mailto:rekconk@gmail.com">rekconk@gmail.com</a> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:rekconk@gmail.com">rekconk@gmail.com</a>>> wrote: > > > > Carthik Sharma wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am in the process of getting ready to upgrade to Breezy, and have a > > couple of questions: > > > > 1) What is the command to download (only download) all .debs of all > > installed packages? > > The idea is to have a copy of all the .debs in a cdrom, since > this would > > mean I have all those that I want. I had run apt-get autoclean > once so > > my apt cache is almost empty now. > > > just add "-d" to your apt-get call > > eg: apt-get -d upgrade > > > This will download the packages that need upgrades. I want to download > packages that are already installed, and up-to-date ? (for archival) my mistake: $ dpkg --get-selections | cut -f 1 > packages.list $ apt-get -d --reinstall --print-uris install `cat packages.list` </blockquote></div> Thanks!!! I am still having problem with the second step, where apt-get complains that it cannot find some packages. I tried options -m, -f and --ignore-missing, but it still complains and stops - any quick fixes?? Thanks a lot, again, Carthik.