Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...
On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 10:01:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 01 Dec 2023 at 21:55:42 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > apt install ./myfile.deb
>
> That requires you to be online, aka "exposed mode". The OP only
> exposes a live USB to the outside world, not their "real" system.
>
> I dimly recollect something called apt-move, but I never needed
> to use it. Back in the days of dial-up, when I had a real job,
> I would upgrade my desk's tower, copy the (uncleaned) archives/
> directory onto a Zip drive, take it home and install the .debs
> onto my home desktop, configured identically, with dpkg.
In that case, use apt-get instead of apt. That way the downloaded .deb
files will not be removed afterward. Then you can just sweep 'em up
from /var/cache/apt/archives, copy them to a stack of floppies, put
the floppies in a box, tie the box to a trained ferret, send the ferret
across town....
If the OP doesn't have a same-release, same-architecture connected
system to use for this purpose, then I don't have an answer. I don't
deal with this stone-age crap any longer, and I am unable to express
how *happy* I am that this is the case.
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