[feature] offline dist upgrade

[mikesol]

Would be perfect for people without internet be capable of make a "dist-upgrade" with a cd or dvd, I'm thinking something like the opensuse installer.

http://en.opensuse.org/Image:11_1-install-002.png

Also, the last year I didn't have Internet in home, so for update I did have to follow these steps:

1) Download the Packages.bz2 and Packages.gz using httrack

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/main/binary-amd64/
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/universe/binary-amd64/

and so on with multiverse, restricted, and the ubuntu-updates and ubuntu-security...

Important: Httrack can let it the folder Hierarchy

2) make a folder in home called repos and point the source.list to this folder, something like that

deb \\\file:\home\user\repos intrepid main universe multiverse.....

3) In synaptic update the repos, mark the updates or install whatever you want.

4) In the File menu select Save script for download (I don't remember exactly)

5) With this file go to a machine with internet and download the files using the add-on linkification in Firefox. Do you need to change all the

\\\file:\home\user\repos for http://

6) Finally go back to home and in the synaptic use the option Add packages downloaded.

As you can see is a really Odyssey update a machine without Internet in distributions based in debian.

Can be this more easy in Helena????????

Thanks

[Nandan Vaidya (gotunandan)]

The Ubuntu alternate install iso has the option of upgrading the distro.
Mount the alternate iso and run cdromupgrade

$ sudo mount /path/ubuntu-alternate-arch.iso /media/cdrom0 -t iso9660 -o loop
$ sudo /media/cdrom0/cdromupgrade

This does the job.
I upgraded from Intrepid to Jaunty this way.

Of course I do not know how it works/would work in Mint (since I have never used it)
But this is one way that I know of

[mikesol (mikesol)]

I think that this will more attractive if there is a interface, like suse http://en.opensuse.org/Image:11_1-install-002.png

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

This is ancient, and not a bug (should be raised as a blueprint)