please could you help me to download some of my right software for Ubuntu.

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/8/21 Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>:
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 08:50 +1100, Alfred George wrote:
>> Dear team,
>> I have a computer with Ubuntu on it. currently i don't have internet
>> connection on my house. so can i download any software in my office
>> and save it on my flash drive to installe it on my pc at home?
>> How?
>>
>> yours faithfully,
>> ALfred Geoge
>
> Check this site out: http://packages.ubuntu.com/
> You can download .deb's of whatever software you want, and it will also
> inform you of anything that the package depends on, so you can download
> that too, if you need it.
>
> Just as a warning, you can rapidly descend into 'dependency hell' trying
> to do it this way, depending on what you want to install. one way you
> can ease the hassle of this is using Synaptic's 'generate package
> download script' tool.  you can go through synaptic, find the software
> you want, check it to install (ignore the fact that you don't have
> internet for a moment), then go to:
>    "File > Generate Package Download Script".
> This will put a .sh file in your home folder that could (on a linux
> system) be used to download your desired software, and it's required
> dependencies. All you need to do then is look in that file, find the
> package names that it would have had to download, and search
> for/download them from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ under whichever
> Ubuntu version you're using(hardy,intrepid,jaunty,etc). then you wont
> have to worry about dependencies, as Synaptic already checked them for
> you.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> --
> Andrew
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>

I just wonder, if you download ALL the Ubuntu packages available in
the Ubuntu default repositories, how much would that be? Are we
talking about GB, TB or what? If it's only a few GB, someone could put
them all on a DVD, and then synaptic could use that DVD as its
repository, I think…
But maybe it would be way too much to fit on one DVD.

Johnny Rosenberg