In a production environment, you have to wait for a time window to do many 
installations and upgrades, especially if downtime might occur.

anthony
On Tuesday 03 February 2004 08:00 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> What is the sense in waiting though?
>
> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:51 pm, Jeremy C. Reed said:
> ~ On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Michael Havens wrote:
> ~
> ~ > I was once told that if I gave it the d option that it wouldn't
>  automatically ~ > upack the package. I now wonder why you wouldn't want to
>  unpack ot. Isn't ~ > that the reason you loaded it onto your system in the
>  first place? ~
> ~ Maybe to upgrade later.
> ~
> ~ > Further: how do you unpack these downloaded files and where do they
>  download ~ > to?
> ~
> ~ dpkg --install PKGNAME.HERE
> ~
> ~ Look under /var/cache/apt/archives/
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