Re: apt-get install without internet connection

[Antony Gelberg <antony@wayforth.co.uk>]

Marc Brünink wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've a pretty trivial question:
> I've a computer without any internet access. But I want to install a
> specific package which is not included on my debian CDs. So I used
> "apt-get clean"
>  and "apt-get -d install <packagename>" to get the packages on a machine
> with internet access. Thereafter I copied /var/cache/apt to the first
> machine and tryed to "apt-get install" the package. This didn't work.
> "apt-cache" cannot find the package, too. What's wrong?

If you're not installing packages out of a repository, you need to dpkg -i.