I have an Ubuntu machine at home which I want to install some stuff
onto, but the machine has no Internet access. I have an Ubuntu machine
in my office which does have Internet access.<br>
<br>
Theoretically I could use synaptic to install the packages I want on my
office machine, then copy all the package files from my apt cache to a
disc and take them home to install on my home machine.<br>
<br>
In reality my office machine already has some of the packages installed
but no longer to be found in the apt-cache. Even if I remove these
packages and reinstall them in order to get their .debs from the
apt-cache, I won't find all their dependencies in the cache because
they were already installed. There doesn't seem to be a way to
uninstall a package and all its dependencies, and anyway that might
result in removing some things I don't want to remove, like parts of
the base system. I can see what the dependencies are in synaptic or
using the online package search, but then I have to look at the
dependencies of the dependencies, there's way too many.<br>
<br>
Is there some way to automatically download a package and all of its
dependencies, so that I get all the .debs needed to install that
package on a fresh Ubuntu box, even if the machine doing the
downloading already has some of the dependencies installed?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Sean's mailing list bin