On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 6:52 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > that is what i meant, tho on second thought apt-get may still want the > network to check the metadata, and i'm not sure --no-download will help, > tho you may as well try. the help.ubuntu.com topic "Installing packages > without an Internet connection" makes it look a bit harder. i suppose you > still might be able to just fool apt-get by copying in the metadata too, > and running it before the metadata expires. > "the metadata" may well include everything in both /var/cache/apt and /var/lib/apt (and i'd definitely save what's already there on your fresh install before plunking in the content from the networked box). -- this concludes test 42 of big bang inflation dynamics. in the advent of an actual universe, further instructions will be provided. 000000000000000000000042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20180809/455cc036/attachment-0001.html>