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[David Collett]

of course, this could be a tedious process if the package you want has
uninstalled dependancies. In this case the dpkg command will fail, you
will have to go back to the other machine, get the package that caused
the failure, install that with dpkg, then install the original package
again. Repeat as necessary!

If your ubuntu box was connected long enough to do an "apt-get update"
to retrieve the package repository information from the internet
sources(only need to do this once), you could then make life easier by
doing a "apt-get -s install package-name" and this will simulate the
install process, revealing exactly which files (including any
dependancies) you will have to fetch from the repository and copy
accross.

Dave


On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 02:24:24 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > How can I get packages for ubuntu from a different computer (such as a
> > mac or win) and then install them from a cd or removeable storage?
> >
> > Thanx a lot :).
> 
> You mean, your Ubuntu box is not connected to internet and you want to
> download the packages from a different machine, which is connected ?
> 
> You could just connect to the Ubuntu package repository at
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/ or use an FTP client, and just
> get copy the packages you want onto your CD/USB stick/whatever.
> 
> Then once back on your Ubuntu machine, you can install the packages with
> this command: "sudo dpkg -i package-name.deb"
> 
> HTH
> 
> Vince
> 
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