I installed APT 0.5.4 & the latest Synaptic last night, and all went well retrieving the list of updates (running 8.1 Pro). Since it was pretty late & I wanted to actually install the updates later, I chose to "download files only" and went to bed. Thanks to my kids, I was up later in the night and verified Synaptic was done & the files are all in the cache directory, and shut everything down. So now how to do I use APT (or Synaptic) to install those cached files? I'm thinking I can add the path to the sources.list file & Synaptic will see it upon startup, but I can't seem to get the path correct. Clues? Thanks! mike If you can stay calm, while all around you is in chaos...then you probably haven't completely understood the seriousness of the situation.
Op zaterdag 12 oktober 2002 18:35, schreef Mike:
I installed APT 0.5.4 & the latest Synaptic last night, and all went well retrieving the list of updates (running 8.1 Pro). Since it was pretty late & I wanted to actually install the updates later, I chose to "download files only" and went to bed. Thanks to my kids, I was up later in the night and verified Synaptic was done & the files are all in the cache directory, and shut everything down.
So now how to do I use APT (or Synaptic) to install those cached files?
I'm thinking I can add the path to the sources.list file & Synaptic will see it upon startup, but I can't seem to get the path correct. Clues?
Just repeat (exactly) what you did yesterday. With the only chance being that you want to have the rpms to be installed as well. APT will know that the files are in the archive and is not going to download them again. I did it differently last night. I just run the command line version of apt in virtual console one (<ctrl><alt><F1>), followed up by halt "apt-get -y upgrade; halt". So after the download the packages were installed and the computer shutdown. -- Richard
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