Using APT Offline

Abstract

This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment, specifically a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades.

Copyright Notice

Copyright © Jason Gunthorpe, 1999.

"APT" and this document are free software; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file /usr/doc/copyright/GPL for the full license.

Contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Overview
• 2 Using APT on both machines
  • 2.1 Overview
  • 2.2 The configuration file
• 3 Using APT and wget
  • 3.1 Overview
  • 3.2 Operation