Download packages and dependencies from another computer

[Dotan Cohen]

On 21 April 2010 23:25, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/20/2010 10:27 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Is there a tool which will download a .deb packages and all it's
>> dependencies (and dependencies' dependencies) to removable media? I
>> have a machine not connected to the network that needs some packages,
>> but they all have a dependency chain.
>>
>> I have seen AptOnCD, but it does not seem to handle dependencies
>> unless the packages are installed on the downloading computer. Is
>> there a better way?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Perhaps:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Offline
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/AptOff
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Offline/Repository
> will work for you?
>
> For a single package, why not just look at the package dependency
> requirements and download the dependencies independently? Example:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/net/apt-mirror
> - check to see if you have/need:
>  adduser
>  perl
>  perl-modules
>  wget
> Don't have perl-modules? Click on that dependency and download:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/perl-modules
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/all/perl-modules/download
> and that is the .deb for perl-modules -
> <http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/p/perl/perl-modules_5.10.0-24ubuntu4_all.deb>
>
>

Thanks, but the thing is that I do not know what is installed on the
non-networked machine, and what versions. Therefore I would like to
download the whole dependency chain.



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