Re: Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget

Hugo Heden wrote:
On 10/29/07, Derek Broughton <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hugo Heden wrote:

On 10/29/07, Wulfy <wulfmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hugo Heden wrote:
So obviously there is an internal database that apt-get/update-manager
uses, and I would want to *manually* add the manually downloaded
deb-files to that database..

Any ideas?

Hugo Heden
The only thing I can think of which might work (though others may have
more knowledge than I do) is when you've moved the debs to the archive,
run:

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

which will install all the debs. I'm not sure that would work... if
there were dependency problems (old debs?) in there, it might bomb out
and leave you in a more difficult state than you're in now. :@(

Thanks again Wulfmann,

Yeah, I tried that, but since those deb-files are "from Gutsy" and my
current install is Feisty, dpkg refuses to install the packages due to
conflicting and missing dependencies.
Then you can't install them, period.

Your best bet is to download the _source_ debs from gutsy, and recompile
them on your system - but there's no guarantee they'll compile, either.

Thanks Derek,

I appreciate all the pointers.

We'll see what I'll end up doing. I *will* be able to solve this
somehow (there's always Fresh Install), so it is not a matter of life
or death or anything -- now it's more that I'm getting curious.. I am
not sure I understand why I can't do this (but I'm rather close to
just taking your word for it..)

I mean, if update-manager does (in principle)

1) Modify sources.list
2) Download packages
3) Install those packages (resolving dependencies etc)

then should I not be able to intervene in step 2 and "help"
update-manager to get around a crappy-network-connection-problem by
manually downloading some packages?

How about creating a local repository containing the manually
downloaded deb-files, and then try to convince apt-get (or, better
yet, update-manager) that this repository "belongs to gutsy"..

Something like this:

Start by creating an index file, Packages.gz:

$ cd $HOME/dir/containing/debs
$ dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > Packages
$ gzip Packages

And then editing /etc/apt/sources.list -- replace all occurrences of
"feisty" with "gutsy", and adding my local repository to the top of
the file:

deb file:/home/heden/dir/containing/debs gutsy universe

and lastly

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Would something like that be an option? I realize that I probably have
to fix some errors above (for example, not all packages are from
universe so perhaps I need to create a more complicated local
repository, "resembling" a real repository) -- but in principle?


Best regards

Hugo Heden


Just thinking...

- edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change all feisty entries to gutsy,
also disable any third-party repos which may pose problems

- then run...

$sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -d

...to download and not install any packages

- edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change everything back to feisty from
gutsy, leave third-party repos disabled

- then run...

$update-manager -d

...to start the upgrade with the update-manager and the now cached
locally packaged. i doubt that will get everything though, there are
bound to be some dependencies or new packages needed.

-d


--
ubuntu-users mailing list
ubuntu-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Low cost PCB layout software
    ... >could not get either release to install. ... I then tried to download 4.11 and ... Other packages installed ok, ... >Eagle Cadsoft Can't download or install ...
    (comp.arch.embedded)
  • Re: knoppix HD-install problem
    ... I tried to install a package for the management of spatial data ... Knoppix packages too, and I was left with the sensation that not every ... I decided to be more scientific about my Debian download; ... message that the 2.4.27 version of the kernel I had been running so far ...
    (Debian-User)
  • Re: Where are packages cached localy on the machine that installs them?
    ... downloaded them, I cna NFS mount that location on other machines, and avoid ... them having to also download the same pacages before installing them. ... I assume that if I try to install a package, ... how can I share the lisy fo available packages thet is ...
    (Ubuntu)
  • Re: Re[4]: The Ports collection / FreeBSD CDs
    ... but you will not be able to install them without network ... JR> the "Packages" item. ... only selecting items from one cdrom to try to control the process in ... I would download the FBSD 6.1 CD from a mirror (it was ...
    (freebsd-questions)
  • Re: Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget
    ... which will install all the debs. ... dpkg refuses to install the packages due to ... Your best bet is to download the _source_ debs from gutsy, ... manually downloading some packages? ...
    (Ubuntu)