On Wednesday 14 September 2005 16:07, Phil Burness wrote:
I have only a 56k connection from home. I use apt as a mechanism to upgrade. Obviously this is not acceptable when upgrading things like KDE.
In work I have a fast 2Mb connection. Is it possible to copy a set of packages from one of the apt repositories, copy to CD and then upgrade via apt from my CD?
Phil
Hi Phil, If your intention is to use the supplementary KDE packages from a SUSE ftp mirror, then the 'cleanest' solution would be to perform this update with YaST... using the procedure I posted here last night. The only differences in your situation would be: a) you'd have to 'mirror' the appropriate ftp branch on a CD. (YaST looks for specific metadata in pre-set locations before it will recognize and accept an installation source.) b) You'd add your CD as a local installation source in YaST instead of adding the ftp site. Everything else in the procedure I provided would be identical. regards, - Carl