[wellylug] updating vs bandwidth

[Jeff Hunt]

No, I think you will get too many incompatablility problems and wrong
dependencies, but it may be worth a try.
Why not upgrade the other machine from someone's cd, and run all the latest?
Or better stil wait for Lucid in about 8 weeks which is long term
support and probably good and keep them both up to date from day one?

On 3/6/10, Atom Smasher <atom at smasher.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Jeff Hunt wrote:
>
>> 2. When one machine is updated copy the update debs off of
>> /var/cache/apt/archives and transfer them to the same directory in other
>> machine. Then do a standard update (I use update manager) and there will
>> be zero donwloads. Apt will find the debs already present and behave
>> correctly. Apt-get clean will empty the cache after the updating if you
>> wish.
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> sweet! i was just about to ask if there was something like that. i think
> that's exactly what i was looking for.
>
> the most recent running system i've got is ubuntu-studio 9.10. the most
> recent CD i've got is 8.10. i guess i should be able to install from the
> old CD, then follow step #2 for a (mostly) off-line upgrade...?
>
> thanks!
>
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