Synaptic without broadband Internet

[Christopher Houdeshell]

Alban Crequy wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>One of my friend want to switch from Windows to Ubuntu but he has not
>broadband Internet (only 3kB/s). So he cannot use Synaptic or apt-get
>to install big software like eclipse.
>
>He used to download big software for Windows at work, where he has
>broadband Internet. Then he burns a CD and installs the software at
>home on Windows. Often all dependencies are inside the "install.exe"
>program.
>
>On Ubuntu, he has to download the .deb files from
>http://packages.ubuntu.com/ at work and follow dependancies manually
>and hope not to forget something.
>
>I would like a new feature in Synaptic: instead of downloading .deb
>files and installing the packages, I would like Synaptic to generate a
>list of URL to download. Then my friend would go to work and download
>these files, burn a CD and run again Synaptic. Synaptic would find the
>.deb files on the CD.
>
>Is there an easy method (GUI) to do that in Ubuntu 5.10, or is it
>planned for dapper or dapper +1 ?
>
>--
>Alban
>  
>
Can't you calculate the dependencies with apt-get?


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Christopher Ryan Houdeshell