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

[Mark C. Miller]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:49:11 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> 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
>> _____________________________
>> Beware of a dark-haired man with a loud tie.
>>
>>
> 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

Just for grins, I picked up an Ubuntu "special" magazine; it had a  DVD 
included.  According to the magazine, "everything" is on the DVD and you 
can install from there.  I didn't get so brave as to try and "unleash" 
the thing on one of my systems, but it seems like it might be an answer.

mcm

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Mark C. Miller