is ubuntu suitable for computer without internet connection..

[Guido Heumann]

::albert:: schrieb:
> so you mean that i should buy the dvd which contain offline repository
> and then copy it to my box and do apt-cdrom add instead of apt-get
> install?

Well, not necessarily buy it, I was more thinking about downloading, but 
that's up to you. Just "get" it somehow :-)

For the apt commands: you still need apt-get install for installing 
packages from any repository.

Usually packages are downloaded from the ubuntu ftp or http repositories 
when you do an "apt-get install". The known repositories are listed in 
the file /etc/apt/sources.list.

When you do "apt-cdrom add", you basically add an additional repo to 
this list. It will ask you to insert a CD, and scan it for packages. (I 
hope it does also work with DVDs, didn't try this yet. Can someone else 
confirm?)

When you later install something with apt-get install, it will prompt 
you to insert the CD/DVD to get the package from there.

Hope that clears things up a bit :-)

cheers,
Guido