@Peter,

It’s possible that there are no updates available for your system at that time. The system may already have the latest packages installed.

Sometimes, there might be issues with the repository sources. so make sure that your /etc/apt/sources.list file is correctly configured to point to the appropriate repositories.

Running an apt-get upgrade on the same client results in 0 upgrades, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, and 0 not upgraded.

I’ve been contemplating over this a bit, can you suggest what might be the problem?

However, an updated kernel seems to need installing (and complied?) of the internet servers to get the WiFi (Gen. 6) card to work. (A replacement WiFi is not available without spending additional funds. I’ll install MS Windows first.)

As such, I need a program that will download the entire repository from the internet FTP servers onto a USB pen drive (in my case 270 GB) for off-line installation.

The configuration of APT-MIRROR is apparently incompetently put together.

I accidentally discovered that the repository info needed was located in the very same location as the mirror.list config file… /etc/apt/sources.list.

How do I tell APT-MIRROR to download to: /opt/apt-mirror?

I find that the needed command lines are missing from this tutorial.

I have checked all logical places for the downloading files to go (/opt/apt-mirror & /tmp & /home/[USER] & /home/[USER]/Downloads) but they seem just to have vanish.

Observations and Suggestions:

Yes, I have programmed and I’m fully aware that scripts are only so flexible but common sense and simplicity seem to be missing from the Unix/Linux communities.

I would think that a simple FTP [with its directory structure] downloaded for each specific OS (flavor & version) would be far simpler for Administration/Maintenance & End User Support. An option to select a specific storage location (similar to FTP address; e.g.: /media/USBDevice) during OS installation & OS Updates for offline users would be simple enough to accomplish.

This would easily allow for updating the available online repository, as each program (and versions) would be complete within itself, and allows for use of a specific version of any file achieved with the “automatic” use of the newest version as default.

This would also allow for any OS to download the data needed for any Unix/Linux version including any ISO images in a single simple program (and likely already available for most OSes today).

My personal take on the Linux Maintenance systems I’ve seen is that they are overly complex to deal with being from a bygone era of early computing. I fully agree that the computers of the time didn’t have the processing power to deal with the quantities (& varieties) of data currently in use. However, that is not an excuse to stop an update to a simpler system before we are engulfed in the ever engorged leap-frogging that is going on today.

It would be far better to standardize on a strictly modular c++ standard (complied at installation on each computer) and end the need for the seaming endless dependencies needed today.

Example: I installed a very basic word processor and it demanded an obsolete “network protocol”?! be installed with it. Well, I dumped that fast.

Actually, I fully support variety (sorry, I’m bad at spelling) but the endless headaches of dependencies… ARG!

Thank you for your time.

Anonymous.

Facing the same issue. Please someone suggest a way to solve it.

We are using different versions of ubuntu i.e. 14,16,18 & 20. For ubuntu 14 we have desktop versions & others are server versions.

How we can differentiate between server and desktop OS and how we can set up the local repo to update the different versions mentioned?

Which Ubuntu version I should choose for the local repo server? Please suggest.

Thanks.