Comments on: Howto: Download packages and dependencies for offline installation

By: Manuel Bärenz

Manuel Bärenz — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 20:55:38 +0000

Take care: apt-get build-dep only builds the dependencies missing on the downloading machine, not necessarily the ones missing on the machine you want to install on.

By: jm

jm — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:30:13 +0000

yea in the golden age of the internet it is a big concern if you ever have to work with an offline machine so i find this quite useful. i have a laptop with no wired nor wireless connection working under a certain version of ubuntu i want to use (strange enough it works on other versions) and i found some drivers on the net but they are source codes, so now i need the build-essential package

By: Aditya

Aditya — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:57:16 +0000

Doesn’t the ” sudo aptitude –download-only install ” work ???

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:18:48 +0000

It’s been a while since I wrote this Jay, but if I understand your question right, it shouldn’t matter that your online machines are Windows-driven. The scripts only build a list of links to packages you can install, and so the output is just an html file.

Move that to a Windows machine, open it in a browser and then follow each one through to a download source. From there, move the downloaded packages back to the offline machine via USB drive or floppy or what have you.

Or at least, that’s how I remember it working.

By: Jay Sprout

Jay Sprout — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:12:12 +0000

I was so happy because I thought this solved my offline problem – I just got a laptop a week ago and installed Linux on it. But this solution depends on (no pun intended) your ONline machine also using Linus, does it not? All the online computers I have access to are Windows.

By: xirius

xirius — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:47:39 +0000

try keryx. it answers all the problems related to offline ubuntu installations here’s the link..

http://keryxproject.org

By: Theodore Biryukov

Theodore Biryukov — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:26:58 +0000

Sorry. It doesn’t work with out connection to the internet… And you script also doesn’t work. It gives all the files in the output but file PACKAGE_NAME-links.html is ”. So…

By: Theodore Biryukov

Theodore Biryukov — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:51:10 +0000

There is else a solution.
To get list of needed packages (package+all the dependencies) use this command:
sudo apt-get –print-uris –yes install PACKAGE_NAME | grep ^\’ | cut -d\’ -f2 >mydownload.txt
And then you get a text file with links. In linux you need just to type (on computer with internet acess):
wget –input-file mydownload.txt
Or use a download manager with possibility of downloading all the files from a list of urls from a text file.

This is on this page: http://www.webupd8.org/2009/11/get-list-of-packages-and-dependencies.html

By: Neil L

Neil L — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:30:23 +0000

You can also try using:
apt-get build-dep\
–download-only\
–reinstall\
–no-install-recommends\
–yes\
-o Dir::Etc::SourceList=sourcelistfilename
-o Dir::Cache::Archives=foldertostorepackagesin
listofpackages

followed by the same command with “install” instead of “build-dep”

The first command will get all of the dependencies for the packages in listofpackages from the repositories specified in sourcelistfilename and put them in the folder specified by foldertostorepackgesin. Make sure you use a / at the beginning of foldertostorepackagesin or you will also need to set the Dir::State option. The second command will get the actual packages. You need reinstall to make sure it pulls the packages even if they are already on the system you are using to get them. The –yes makes it so that you don’t have to answer yes about downloading each package. You may want to remove the –no-install-recommends depending on whether or not you want to also install recommended packages. I am not sure if build-dep is recursive but my assumption is that it is.

By: Ai

Ai — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:16:41 +0000

I just wanted to let you know I’m working in an offline environment and having a heck of a time getting online. It’s nice to know I’m not alone! ^_^