Hiya every1,

Ive been running my Debian system for a few months now. The rides been only slightly bumpy along the way. It is true, The APT system must be the best system update tool ever created. However, I installed Debian from the 7 CD Woody 3r2, and update the packages i need from Testing using APT. I would like to do a full system update from the Security updates and Testing, but ive only got a slow little dial-up connection at home. What I thought would be really good would be to download all the necessary packages at school, where they have a crazy speed connection. So, I thought it would be really good if I could save the file locations I need from apt-get, then take this into school and download the filelist to my USB disk and install them back at home.

School runs Windows XP with IE 6.0, and does not allow users to run exe files.

Any ideas?

dav

Only workaround I can think of is this:
on your home box, do:
apt-get update && apt-get -s upgrade

Copy and paste the package list that it wants to update.
At school, go to packages.debian.org and download the testing versions of those packages. Save 'em and take 'em home.
Install them at home.

Should work - all apt does is download debs, after all.

Alternatively, dump all the debs into a directory on your home box, and add that directory to your sources.list. Then, when you do an apt-get upgrade, it can pull the needed packages from your HD and still install/configure automatically. You might need to include some kind of index file in the directory... not 100% sure how to do that.

--Rounan