Michael Havens wrote:

>How exactly does apt-get work. Does it like have a central location of all the 
>getable files and their dependencies while there must also be a list on your 
>node that tells it what files are on it. Then when you apt-get something it 
>compares the two lists and gets what isn't on your node. I was hoping that 
>there is a directory that the files (debs?) are saved to whic I could copy 
>to /home and then if I do an upgrade I won't have to apt-get them again. For 
>instanceI am downloading a kernel which is a 2 hour download on my dialup.
>I just did locate <known file> and that one appears to be in /usr/share. If 
>this is so and all apt-geted files are placed in there would a good solution 
>to my desire be to: after I run 'apt-get install <file>' to 
>'cp  /usr/src /home/usr/src' or  'cp -r /usr/src /home/usr/src'? Or is there 
>another directory I should do that to?
>  
>
When you apt-get install a package the deb file  is stored in 
/var/cache/apt/archives/



Jim

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