<title>Using APT Offline</title>
<author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author>
-<version>$Id: offline.sgml,v 1.5 2002/09/15 23:14:34 jgg Exp $</version>
+<version>$Id: offline.sgml,v 1.8 2003/02/12 15:06:41 doogie Exp $</version>
<abstract>
This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment,
<p>
For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file
-/usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license.
+/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full license.
</copyright>
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</example>
More details can be seen by examining the apt.conf man page and the sample
-configuration file in <em>/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf</em>.
+configuration file in <em>/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf</em>.
<p>
On the remote Debian machine the first thing to do is mount the disc and copy
</example>
The dist-upgrade command can be replaced with any-other standard APT commands,
-particularly dselect-upgrad. You can even use an APT front end such as
+particularly dselect-upgrade. You can even use an APT front end such as
<em>dselect</em> However this presents a problem in communicating your
selections back to the local computer.
# export APT_CONFIG="/disc/apt.conf"
# apt-get check
[ APT generates a local copy of the cache files ]
- # apt-get --no-d -o dir::etc::status=/var/lib/dpkg/status dist-upgrade
+ # apt-get --no-d -o dir::state::status=/var/lib/dpkg/status dist-upgrade
[ Or any other APT command ]
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