Re: [Sheflug] Debian problem

[Rob Andrews <rob [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[01-Oct-2003 16:13.50 (BST) / Simon Brown]
 > I was abusing my mates DSL connection yesterday but apt hadn't got  
 > everything by the time I had to go, so I've downloaded all theese packages  
 > (~400MB) into my cache but can't work out how to install them, an apt-get  
 > upgrade is the obvious solution, but it's still got 64MB to go which I  
 > don't fancy I could do them one by one, but that'd be tedious

apt will automatically check the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives for
files that have already been downloaded, and will not re-fetch them if they
match and are located in the pkgcache.bin file.

Re-running the same apt-get commandline will thus not refetch any data that
it does not need to - it even resumes interrupted files.

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