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

[Vince Hoang]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:33:32AM -1000, Vince Hoang wrote:
> 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.

Uhm, the directory is actually /var/cache/apt/archives.

-Vince