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rishabh_destiny
May 22nd, 2010, 11:48 AM
I have Ubuntu 10.04 on my two machines. I installed the restricted extras on one machine along with all other updates. Is it possible to just copy those updates into the other machine, without wasting time and bandwidth in entire new update?

If not, please tell me for atleast restricted extras.

Thanks

wojox
May 22nd, 2010, 02:10 PM
Look in /var/cache/apt/archives. They should be in there unless you've cleaned them out.

mac9416
May 22nd, 2010, 02:14 PM
Hi,

The updates are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives. You can copy the .deb files from there to a flash drive and from the flash drive to the /var/cache/apt/archives directory on the target machine.

However, because you may not have run 'apt-get update' on the target machine, it may not know that ubuntu-restricted-extras is available. If that is the case, you'll want to look at Keryx (http://keryxproject.org), which will handle updating APT for you.

rishabh_destiny
May 22nd, 2010, 04:29 PM
Thanks. Please clarify one more thing, do I have to run the debian files which I'll copy in the flash drive, or just paste them in the target folder?

wojox
May 22nd, 2010, 04:30 PM
Just copy the whole package.

rishabh_destiny
May 22nd, 2010, 04:39 PM
Thanks, wojox :)

wojox
May 22nd, 2010, 05:22 PM
Thanks, wojox :)

Your welcome. :)