Gutsy upgrade question: Manually downloading some packages using wget

[Hugo Heden]

Good day all,

I have a problem with upgrading to Gutsy -- the update-manager tells
me [1] that it fails to fetch some 30 files (of the 1200 it needed).
So update-manager cancels the upgrade, and reset /etc/apt/sources.list
to point to feisty.

(I suspect that this has to do with the (stupid) virus scanner in my
company firewall.. I've tried using several different Software
Sources, but to no avail.)

However, I can download the 30 package files (deb-files) using wget,
so I actually have them on my file system.

Now, how do I continue? How do I tell update-manager to continue, but
using the deb-files that I have manually downloaded?

Do I for example somehow "select" the downloaded deb-files using
dpkg-something? And then restart update-manager?

Or should skip update-manager and try modifying my sources.list
manually and then running apt-get dist-upgrade?

Or do I create a "local apt-repository" on my file system containing
the deb-files, and add that repository to my sources.list..? (Hope
this is not the way to do it.. sounds tricky)

Any hints much appreciated!


Best regards

Hugo Heden


[1] "Could not download the upgrades. The upgrade aborts now. Please
check your internet connection or installation media and try again. "