On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Divided By 0 wrote: > Hi, > > I have a simple question. I've set up fedora core 3 and downloaded all > updates through apt-get. Now, I want to convert my girlfriend to linux > (a noble cause) but unfortunately she doesn't have access to the > internet. Is there any way to burn all the apt-get updates into a cdrom > and then use that to update her pc? > I'm pretty certain the updates reside somewhere in my pc, I just don't > know where. > After copying them to her pc, should I just rpm -i them or use apt-get > in some way? You could try a 'rpm -Fvh *.rpm' - and see if it works. (to have better depencency check - you'd want to use apt/yum). I'll explain this with 'yum'. Apt migh have a similar way of doing it. 1.the rpms are in /var/cache/yum/*/packages - copy them over to the other machine (via cd-rw) - say into /root/packages 2. create a repository for these packages cd /root/packages createrepo . 3. add this repository to yum repository list edit /etc/yum.repos.d/local.repo with the following lines: [local-updates] name=Local RPMs baseurl=file:///root/packages enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 4. Since you don't have network - disable the repositories over the netwok (i.e /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo & fedora-updates.repo ) 5. <this is not required - but to be safe> You might also crate a local repo for ALL the rpms from the distribuiton as well (by copying all rpms from the release-cds. 6. now do 'yum update'. Satish
