[luau] use apt-get to install package already downloaded?

Vince Hoang luau at ml.altern8.net
Fri Nov 14 10:29:00 PST 2003


On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:22:28PM -0800, TB wrote:
> I used apt-get to install xfree86. Now I want to install it on
> some additional machines. I don't want to have apt-get download
> it on each machine, since it took over a 1/2 hour to download
> the first time. I want to move the file by hand over the local
> network, then invoke apt-get or whatever to install. I know
> there must be a way, but the man page for apt-get and apt-cache
> leave me clueless. How do I do this?

In the long term, have all your machines use the same proxy.

In the short term, copy the rpms under /var/lib/apt over to the
other systems.

-Vince



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