[ILUG] Linuxmint Question

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:43:28AM +0100 or thereabouts, ollie at eillo.org wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
>             Does anyone know if the newest linuxmint release (http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_elyssa.php)
> contains some of the updates that Ubuntu 8.04 has received since it was released?
> 
> Im installing mint on a desktop pc that has no internet connectivity at all and want to be able
> iron out the worst of the initial bugs at least.
> 
> Is there any reasonably easy way to update a system like this?

I would have said bring the pc to the internet to do an update, then bring
it back to its usual spot.

Back in the day when I had only dialup at home, I would do 'apt-get update'
to download the repo info and then have apt-get generate a list of URLs for
the actual update.  I would then download the update packages at work and
bring them home and drop them in /var/cache/apt/packages and do the apt-get
dist-upgrade to install them.  You could consider something similar where
you download the repo files, bring them to the desktop, then apt-get
dist-upgrade -make-list-of-urls to generate the list, download them next day
and bring them to the pc.

I still reckon bringing the pc to the 'net is the easier way to go...

Conor
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