10 Nov
2011
10 Nov
'11
12:53 a.m.
Hello, Erik Christiansen:
That does sound easier than doing an "apt-get --download-only", sharing the archive via NFS (or sneakernet), and doing a "dpkg -i", but we often just end up doing what we remember how to do.
Instead of doing a "dpkg -i", just copy the downloaded .deb files into /var/cache/apt/archives/ on the other machines, then use apt-get as normal. That way you still only download once (other than the index files), but you get all the smarts of apt-get, eg if one of the machines is not quite like the others it'll still do the right thing. That's assuming hard disk space is not a problem, but that's often the case. Jiri -- Jiri Baum <jiri@baum.com.au> http://www.baum.com.au/sabik