From: Chorus Grove <theadmin@chorusgrove.site>
To: ALT Linux <community-en@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [Comm-en] Using RPM cache on a second ALT-Linux system
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2022 10:46:05 -0600
Message-ID: <3d512730-9506-dd14-c27a-b1c2fe03ce9c@chorusgrove.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4271098a-cd9a-d9f4-e1c3-80e4f0dd3a93@chorusgrove.site>
On 8/2/22 10:25 AM, Chorus Grove wrote:
> Thanks so much, Michael! So, I've copied over the contents of the
> archives from one machine to the other. Now, here's a silly question:
> how do I tell Synaptic to use those files to do an upgrade? When I
> start up Syanptic, it doesn't seem to acknowledge that the 500MB of
> RPMs are there. If I try something like "add downloaded packages",
> Synaptic tells me that this hasn't been implemented for RPMs, patches
> welcome.
>
> Do I need to use the command line and RPMI or something else to do the
> upgrade?
>
>
Oh, never mind. I figured it out. Once I connected the second PC to
the Internet and allowed Synaptic to update the repository package list,
I saw that it acknowledged that the rpms were already downloaded and
just wanted to upgrade. So, all is good, I think. Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-02 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-02 3:07 Chorus Grove
2022-08-02 6:35 ` Michael Shigorin
2022-08-02 16:25 ` Chorus Grove
2022-08-02 16:46 ` Chorus Grove [this message]
2022-08-02 18:23 ` Michael Shigorin
2022-08-02 21:00 ` Chorus Grove
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