On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Keith Watson wrote:
How about this one though? Is it possible to do an apt-get upgrade on one system (with a fast link) and just download the deb files and then put them on a slower system and do the apt-get upgrade there without it trying to download the lot a 2nd time?
For the first part, I think you need apt-get --download-only. IIRC, it puts the deb files in whatever the current directory happens to be at the time.
If you can make this directory look like a local directory on the second machine, you can then install the packages on that machine by putting that directory as a file:// source in /etc/apt/sources.list, and creating up a packages file for apt to look at. Ways of doing this were discussed in an ALUG thread called "apt setup help" in March of this year.