Re: [edlug] installing packages when without an Internet connection

[Manuel López-Ibáñez <manuellopezibanez@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

1) google apt-get offline
2) http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-36365.html
3a) http://www.batmat.net/apt-offline/
3b) http://packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/admin/apt-zip

Done.

Sean Hammond wrote:
> I have a home computer running Ubuntu which is not connected to the Internet.
>
> I want to install a package on that computer from Ubuntu's universe repository.
>
> The package has dependencies, and the dependencies have dependencies, and so on.
>
> I have a laptop, also running Ubuntu, which *can* be connected to the Internet.
>
> The packages currently installed on the laptop do not match exactly
> the packages installed on the desktop PC. So if I was to apt-get the
> wanted package onto the laptop, it might not download into the
> apt-cache all of the .deb's that would be required to install the same
> package on the desktop PC, as the laptop may already have some of the
> dependencies installed.
>
> So... basically I need some way to download onto the laptop the wanted
> package and all of its dependencies. Just download the .deb's, don't
> necessarily install them. Then I can copy all of the debs over to the
> desktop PC and can install them there.
>
> This is similar to a problem Andrew Aylett posted a while ago which no
> one seemed to have an answer to (subject: Ubuntu 'slipstream').
>
> You'd think there would be a command to achieve this, or it could be
> scripted easily, but I'm really surprised to find that there seems to
> be no reasonable way of doing this. It seems that if a computer is not
> connected to the Internet then you're more or less stuck with the
> packages that came on the CD.
>
> Alternatively, the wanted program is installed on the laptop, but the
> laptop doesn't necessarily have all the .debs still there, is there
> some way to transfer the installed program over?
>
> I have installed the package apt-doc and looked at it's apt-offline
> instructions, but they seem a really over the top approach, and anyway
> that solution would not be possible in my case.
>
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