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

[Graham Todd]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:49:11 +0200
Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> uttered these words:

> 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…
[snipped]

Debian actually do this already and, yes, it would be possible to place
these on a load of DVDs, but you would still need to download from the
repositories.

This is because the repositories hold the **latest** version of
packages, including their dependencies, and if you need an application
that is not in the repositories, you will almost certainly have to
get the version of the dependencies which are in the repositories.  The
result could be broken packages.

Unless you are going to keep to the versions of the software on the
DVDs you download (which could be useful if you don't have an internet
connection, or just have an aged serial modem) [in which case I'd say
get a nic card!]), you will almost certainly enter that region known as
"dependency hell", as others have remarked.

Since Ubuntu is a fork of Debian, and since the "stable" version of
Debian is likely to be updated less often, I would suggest you get the
current "stable" version of Debian and do not connect to the internet
if you are considering this at all.

Otherwise, don't bother and simply update your Ubuntu packages
regularly.

-- 
Graham Todd