Instralling from offline sources: broadcom

I need to install the broadcom-wl wireless adaptor drivers. I have no connection to the internet on this new installation. So it's either this or tethering the iphone to get this package installed.

Both of these pathways require a plethora of steps to install various dependencies for dependencies. I was a debian user in the early 90s, and remember alarm at the penchant of devels to split everything into packages; now I can remembery why....

Anyway, I need build-depends. Make, of all things, is one of the most difficult things to install.

I have installed stretch. Up to this point, it's a fantastic process of installation. As of now, several problems have kept me back.

1. I used a usb of HD medium, so many packages are on this usb drive, but it's beyond me how to get apt-get to recognize the USB drive as a rep, and go ahead and complete the update. Probably I need a list of packages.

2. I cannot find make on this USB drive in pool.

3. I cannot find patch on this USB drive.

4. Individually I have installed a bunch of development packages.

5. Tethering is a huge problem because of ifuse, I think, and other dependency hells.

This is enough for now. I would very much appreciate some advice on any of these topics. Once I have broadcom-wl installed it's all downhill I think.

I do have the package, but the dependencies are driving me bats.

Thank you.

Alan Davis

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