Tips for slow internet access user

[H.S.]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hello all,
> Internet connection in my country is quite expensive, so not everybody has a 
> broadband. 
> I am a RH/Suse users for so many years and now I've been exploring Ubuntu. The 
> experience so far has been awesome! I like it.
> However, since Ubuntu is a single CD distro, many times it needs to download 
> additional packages from the internet. Fine, I can do this from the office 
> because it has fast internet access. 
> 
> However,
> I have a desktop PC at home. I want to install Feisty on it. My question is: 
> Can I "use/transfered" the packages that I have downloaded using synaptic on 
> my notebook AT the OFFICE for my desktop PC at HOME? How? I notice that 
> downloaded packages are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives? I understand that 
> we can use the command dpkg to install from file, but what if a package needs 
> lots of dependencies?
> 
> Any tips are appreciated. Thank you.
> 

Yes, the good people at Debian have already done this:
http://debian.pffa.de/ger/howto/apt-zip.html

Ubuntu has the same package I suppose.


->HS