Re: packages listed vs. apt-rdepends --follow=Depends ...
On Fri 01 Dec 2023 at 21:55:42 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 02:52:25AM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> > direct dependencies of packages which haven't been downloaded,
> > install. I need to download those packages.
> > These should be a straightforward way to do that or an easy hack.
>
> I'm still struggling to figure out what the X is in this gigantic X-Y
> problem.
>
> Do you have a .deb file, and you want to install it, along with all of
> its dependencies? If that's the X, then you do this:
>
> apt install ./myfile.deb
>
> That's it.
[In view of the time of day:]
That requires you to be online, aka "exposed mode". The OP only
exposes a live USB to the outside world, not their "real" system.
I dimly recollect something called apt-move, but I never needed
to use it. Back in the days of dial-up, when I had a real job,
I would upgrade my desk's tower, copy the (uncleaned) archives/
directory onto a Zip drive, take it home and install the .debs
onto my home desktop, configured identically, with dpkg.
Cheers,
David.
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