Possible strange question about apt/apt-get

[Petter Adsen]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 18:00:33 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> I have what is probably a "strange" question about apt-get (or maybe
> apt).
> 
> I am currently on a dialup connection, so doing a "normal" 
> "apt-get install <something>" is sometimes not realistic, at least
> for some of my machines, since the download would take hours and
> hours at dialup speeds. What I would like to do is create a script
> using wget to run on my laptop (running CentOS 6 on an x86_64
> processor) to download the batch of .deb files needed for one of my
> little Debian-flavored machines (in partitular one running armbian
> aarch64).  I tried a *simple* script that tries to get the urls by
> scanning the files in /var/lib/apt/lists, but it is not working --
> some of the packages are in more than one list and I don't know
> apt-get's "magic" to figure out which host is the right one.
> 

Maybe apt-offline will help?

Petter

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