Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 16 July 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
> Thanks, but that won't help me. ?I need to do this without apt-get, as the
> systems in question are on a private subnet with no internet access. ?I
> just want to point dpkg to the on-network deb package and have it get
> installed. ?Is that not possible? ?Its dead easy with RPM based distros.

Here's a response from the Ubuntu list on how to move deb files around from 
one system to another.   If you have access to the deb file, this should do 
it.


> I have a desktop PC at home. I want to install Feisty on it. My question is:
> Can I "use/transfered" the packages that I have downloaded using synaptic on
> my notebook AT the OFFICE for my desktop PC at HOME? How? I notice that
> downloaded packages are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives? I understand that
> we can use the command dpkg to install from file, but what if a package 
needs
> lots of dependencies?

Yes, copy the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives to a CD or something
and then take them to /var/cache/apt/archives on your home PC. ?Then
just use apt-get to install the software normally. ?The system will
see you've already "downloaded" all the packages and will install them
for you. ?Your dependencies are met since they're also downloaded into
/var/cache/apt/archives along with the software you explicitly
installed.



Hope this helps.