Bug#38095: apt: have apt-get install without downloading
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.6
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if apt-get had a way to install the packages it had
available (ones it had already downloaded and from file: sources) without
downloading anything new. I have a nightly "apt-get -d" job, but it often
fails to pick up a few packages. I'd like to be able to install what I
can without waiting for it to download what it had missed. Just running
dpkg -i from inside the cache isn't perfect because of the way it will
install packages whose dependencies aren't met, leaving them unconfigured.
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Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org
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