Automatically download a package and all dependencies (recusrively)

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:52:20PM +0000, Sean Hammond wrote:
> Is there some way to automatically download a package and all of its
> dependencies, so that I get all the .debs needed to install that package on
> a fresh Ubuntu box, even if the machine doing the downloading already has
> some of the dependencies installed?

The "Using APT Offline" document should help you with this. Install the
apt-doc package and look here:

  /usr/share/doc/apt-doc/offline.html/index.html

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]