Fwd: Repositories

[Bill Cairns]

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I sent this a two weeks ago and received no reply. I am trying again to see if anyone can help me.





I have two ubuntu machines - one has no network connection and the other has a slow connection. I do, however, have access to a fast network connection on a Windows machine.



I would like to be able to use Synaptic - or equivalent - to add applications. How can I persuade Synaptic to let me provide the necessary .deb files rather than insisting on getting them from the Internet?



The WIKI has what looks like an excellent solution using dpkg-scanpackages to create a file for apt-get. But dpkg-scanpackages is not in the standard repository so I am in a catch 22 situation with that suggestion.



Would appreciate help,

   Bill