Question about transfering DVD Package files to /var...

[Daniel Villarreal]

I'd recommend that you first be sure you're not trying to transfer
over the lock file. You don't need to copy that anyway.

On 11/25/09, alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
>
> Hi All:
>
> I got some DVD Files from www.thelinuxstore.org  for Ubuntu 9.04. Using
> Eric's Find command, which I've now lost. :(  I emptied out all the
> folders, and put all the Packages into one Folder, on the desktop. There
> are now 26,939 .deb packages in one folder. I'd like these to be
> in /var/cache/apt/archives/ just copying them using sudo cp
> -rf /home/name/Desktop/deb-folder/* /var/cache/apt/archives, is too long
> of a list. Is there a better way to do this?
>
> I'm using Gdebi to do the installs at the moment, which is a bit clunky
> because on the desktop I have to manually search through the 26,939
> items to find the Packages needed for the install. I figure if they were
> in /var.... then I could use Synaptic to do the install. Synaptic tends
> to favour going out on the web to find things and not reading things off
> the DVD's.  With my snail speed Internet I get on good days about 3862
> B/sec so just about all the files are to big to download them, as it
> could take a year and a half to download all the files I need. :(.
>
> Thank you in Advance.
>
> PS if Eric could send me the two variations of that Find Command again,
> that would be Very much appreciated!
>
> Alfred!
>
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