[ubuntu-in] Lucid installations without internet

[Onkar Shinde]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Moz <listmoz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I have recently installed Lucid on a 64 bit computer, but I do not
> have internet access at the speeds I need to install the additional
> softwares I need. So I went to synaptic and selected all the softwares
> I want to install and then clicked on apply, thus I got links to all
> the files I need to download. A friend is downloading these files at a
> broadband connection. I will install these files with
>
> sudo dpkg -i *.deb
>
>
> I now need to install it on 2 other 64 bit computers, and create
> identical installations. So I can use these downloads many times over.
>
> Is there anything wrong with following this method?

Instead of using 'dpkg -i' I suggest that you copy the .deb files to
/var/cache/apt/archives/ and then use synaptic package to install
software.
dpkg is not a package manager, synaptic is.


Onkar