On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 Albretch Mueller wrote: On Thu 22 Apr 2021 Dan Ritter wrote:
What you lose this way (besides time) is having apt calculate which supporting packages you need. However,https://packages.debian.orgwill happily tell you all the dependencies of any given package, and then you can get all the dependencies of each of those, and so on.yes, and "japt" would scrape those pages or even simulate apt to figure out all dependencies and then download all the packages you need to install locally, off line. ~
How similar, to the offline machine that will install the packages, is the machine that connects to the internet to download them ? If sufficiently similar, there is the '-d' option (--download-only) for apt-get. -- Ce qui est important est rarement urgent et ce qui est urgent est rarement important -- Dwight David Eisenhower