How to copy packages...

[david]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 15:29, Andrea Giuliano wrote:
> Sorry, this is probably a most stupid question!
> 
> I'm not very familiar to Debian packages, so I'm wondering how can one 
> copy a package just as I do under Fedora or RPM-based systems.
> 
> An RPM file contains all files needed by an application or whatever, but 
> I guess DEB packages are different. At least, I see that a quite big 
> application like GCompris has a rather big (several Mbs) RPM file, while 
> the corresponding DEB package is just 230K long.
> 
> I guess that if I just copied the latter on a floppy and bring it home, 
> I would not get GCompris installed at all.
> 
> Since I have to installa GCompris on a PC without net card, nor modem, I 
> cannot use apt-get as usual.
> 
> How else can I do?
> 
> Many thanks in advance.

You could apt-get install it and then go to /var/cache/apt/archives and
copy the necessary files.
By the way, gcompris will not fit on a floppy.


regards

David