Hello, Yes, and no. You can run `apt-get -d install iceape`, and it will download the package, and the missing dependencies, to /var/cache/apt/archives/. However, if you want to install something on a machine without internet access you might be better off with apt-medium [1], although I never used that. And I'm sorry, but I don't understand your second question. I assume that you think that the security repository is independent of the others, but that's not so. A Debian installation usually uses 3 repositories together: * A "base" repo, containing the release packages * A "security" repo, containing security fixes for those packages * An "updates" repo that serves updates for non-security relevant bugs As always, we might be able to better help you if you can give us a description of what you want to do. Regards, /peter Am 25.02.2016 um 09:32 schrieb Bret Busby: > On 25/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Searching for a single .deb & trying to install that is the way >> proprietary systems handle it. With Debian, and most other Linux >> distros, there's repositories, and tools to handle dependencies. Open a >> command line / terminal and enter >> sudo apt-get install iceape >> >> It will pull iceape, and all dependencies, from the Debian repos, and >> install them. >> >> Updates are handled similarily. >> >> Regards, >> /peter >> >> Am 25.02.2016 um 07:08 schrieb Bret Busby: >>> Hello. >>> >>> I searched for a .deb package, for iceape, so that I could download >>> the package for the iceape suite, to try to install it. >>> >>> Ahat I found, is apparently submerged in a "security pool". >>> >>> I found that what is apparently provided as the iceape suite .deb >>> package, is just something that has endless unsatisfiable >>> dependencies. >>> >>> Is an installable .deb package for the iceape suite, available? >>> >> >> > > Is there a way (a switch for the apt-get command?) to download all of > the dependencies? I have looked at man apt-get, and, that has an > option "download" (as opposed to install or find), but I could not > find, from the man entry for apt-get, how to download the package and > all of its dependencies; that is, to download the particular package, > and, its dependency packages, so that they can be stored, and, > installed (or, tried to be installed) on different systems as wanted. > > Also, does a means exist, for specifying a particular repository for > only the particular instantiation of the command, so that, for > example, as iceape is only in the security pool repository, to specify > only for the installation of iceape (or, if it can be done, for the > download of iceape and its dependencies, to a directory on the > computer), the particular repository path? > >
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