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Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?



On 7/2/19 6:04 AM, Matthew Crews wrote:

> To determine *which* installation DVD contains one of these programs,
> you will need to look at the individual wiki page for each VM host
> program, see which package or packages you need, and check the DVD .list
> files to see which DVD contains that package [2]. You should also be
> aware that each package may have untold number of dependencies, so I
> suggest you look at each individual package [3], figure out the
> dependencies, and then figure out which dvd those dependencies are on.

Addendum:

An alternative method is to look at each individual package, figure out
which packages you need, download the .deb files for each package, put
them on removable media (CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, or a usb flash drive), put
the removable media in your host machine, and install from the removable
media.

On an internet-capable host, you can download the .deb for apps foo and
bar this way (without root access):

$ apt download foo bar

make sure you pay attention to the file name afterwards:

$ pwd
/path/to/file
$ ls *.deb
foo_3.14.deb  bar_2.18.deb

To install a .deb file, you can either use apt to point to the file:

$ sudo apt install /path/to/file/foo_3.14.deb /path/to/file/bar_2.18.deb

Or you can use dpkg:

$ sudo dpkg -i /path/to/file/foo_3.14.deb /path/to/file/bar_2.18.deb

-Matt

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