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?

Have a look at apt-zip. You run apt-zip on the slow machine and it writes a script to download the required packages which you then take to the fast machine. After downloading the packages you take them to the slow machine and run apt-zip again to install them. It was originally written to use zip disks but you can now specify any storage location you want AFAIK.

JD

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