Debian/Ubuntu dselect question

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the response.  Sadly, that's one hell of a kludge (not that its 
your fault).  I'm rather disapointed that the Debian packaging system 
isn't capable of installing a package over the network.

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