[maemo-users] How to (re-)download DEB packages with APT

[From: ekul taylor]

To list everything you have installed:

dpkg --get-selections > package.list

You'll need to clean that up a bit (just the package names and all one line)
but I'll leave that as an exercise for the reader.

To download all the packages:

apt-get -d install package.list

-d will just download the packages to /var/cache/apt/archives and won't
actually install anything.  If you want to store them for later I'd mount
that directory to some sort of file server via NFS or samba before running
apt-get and save yourself the hassle of moving them somewhere else after (or
risk running out of space)

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 11:58 PM, sebastian maemo <sebastian.maemo at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi everybody:
>
> I know it's a weird question... but I'm afraid that some repositories for
my N770 might disappear sometime in the future... so I'd like to know if
it's possible to download via APT all the DEB packages I have already
installed on my device (I removed the downloaded packages to gain empty
space...)
>
> --
> Salut,
> Sebas
>
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