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I installed Lubuntu 12.04 while I am roaming on old Dell Inspiron Pentium 4 with 1GB ram and integrated Ati graphics because I read that this distro handles 720p and more videos. Well, it looks like I was wrong because Mplayer keeps crashing. I started to think that if I update it may fix the problem. Okay, so I have data roaming but not tethering/hotspot, nor the money for it. Is there a way to download my updates to my phone (185MB approx.) then transfer to my laptop?

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You can use... (drum roll)... apt-offline! You will need an Ubuntu live USB disk and another computer with internet access.

Step one is to install apt-offline.

Go to a computer with a working internet connection and download the apt-offline package. Save it to a pen drive. Alternately, save it to your phone (if possible), and transfer it to your PC.

Once the file is on your PC, double-click (unless you have click-to-select disabled) and install the .deb.

Step two is to create a package list

which you can do by opening a terminal and running sudo apt-offline set ~/apt.sig. this will create a file named apt.sig in your home folder. Copy it to your USB Live disk.

Step three is to obtain the packages

Boot from your live USB on a computer that has working internet access (e.g. at a library) and install apt-offline:

sudo apt-get install apt-offline

Then mount your USB drive, and use apt-offline get --bundle /download/path/aptbundle.zip /path/to/apt.sig, replacing /path/to/apt.sig with the path to apt.sig on your thumb drive.

Step four is to install the packages

Copy the created .zip file over to the offline PC. Right click and extract it in a new folder, open a terminal in that folder, and run the command sudo dpkg -i *.deb.

You will have to repeat this every couple of days at least if you want to keep your computer up to date with the latest security updates.

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