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I want to update a Mint system that uses a dial-up connection. From a 2nd computer with an already updated system, I copied all the .deb files in the File System/var/cache/apt/archives to a flash drive.

Is there any way to do this except install them one by one?
Bill

Not sure, since each package whether selectively installed or one-by-one is still installing each package..

You might try this approach
http://linux.koolsolutions.com/2008/04/ ... -packages/
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/406

• One of the simplest solutions is to setup a caching proxy server which will be used to fetch packages by each host. This will ensure that packages are downloaded from the network the first time they are requested, then when the next two machines come to request the same package it will be fetched from the cache - not using up any external bandwidth at all!

It is exactly the same as updating from the internet, just copy the files into /var/cache/apt/archives on the other machine and update through synaptic or the command line.
I do this all the time on multiple ubuntu based installations, no need to keep downloading the same stuff over again. My installations are all on the same machine, so I actually just upgrade one installation then sync the /var/cache/apt/archives files between the two installs using an rsync gui and then run the upgrade on the other installation.

How do you copy the files into /var/cache/apt/archives on the other machine? It seems that you are prevented from doing this in the file manager.
Willellen

You need to be root to have write access. Try this in terminal.

viking777 - when you do that - do you get any dependency errors?.

Pierre wrote:viking777 - when you do that - do you get any dependency errors?.

Never.

I get an error message that states "Permission denied". How do I get "permission" in this file manager? I believe that the Dolphin file manager allows you to log in as root for things like this.

WillEllen

Yep click on Root in dolphin find Var folder and right click folder and select root actions>open in file manager.
Now you have a root access dolphin. Usually to be extra safe I find the files I want to copy and right click copy them then browse into the root/var folder and right click paste the files. But what ever works for you.

Just be careful and make sure you close that Root File manager when done and don't continue to use it.
Regular user dolphin will be all you need except for situations when needing to copy to or modify a file in root.
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Is there a way to do this in the Mate 14 File Manager or must I install dolphin?

nope just open a sudo or root file manager like caja for mate.
Sorry don't use so don't know if there is an action in file manager for that.

Guess you could open a terminal and type in.
To start one.