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04-30-2008, 07:49 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2006
Distribution: RHEL4,5,6&7,Debian sarge,etch & Fedora 18,19,20
Posts: 28
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script to download package updates
hi
I am looking for a script or file that can download all package updates from a website say deb http://www.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free, to one location and burn them into a cd.
Last edited by thunyiwe; 04-30-2008 at 08:35 AM.
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04-30-2008, 08:06 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: London, ON, Canada
Distribution: Arch, Ubuntu, Slackware, OpenBSD, FreeBSD
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If you read the manpage for apt-get ("man apt-get") you should see an option that will tell apt-get to download packages without installing them. By default any packages downloaded for installation/upgrade get saved to somewhere in /var (hunt around a bit, you'll find it).
Once you get that figured out, burning a CD of the downloaded packages is easy.
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