HowTo: manage updates to Ubuntu offline, via memory key or CD/DVD?

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Saturday 31 May 2008 00:13:44 Leo Mauler wrote:
> I'm about to set up two Linux PCs for the Alcott Arts Center

> I'll run the updates before I pack up the PCs, but after I install them
> on-site there is no on-site method of downloading updates.

We all love to have the latest and greatest software, but why would you really 
need to run regular updates?  The system is not exposed to internet hacking, 
so security updates aren't really needed, and as long as it works, it doesn't 
need anything.