No Internet acess and still install your packages!
If you’ve been wondering how to install applications without having internet access, I came across the tutorial that shows you how. But I think that you might need to ask someone to help you out while following the instructions. Some of it could be confusing because you need to use two machines to perform the task. So in this case maybe you’ve got three machines in the house and for some reason or another only one of them can connect to the internet.
Things to remember:
- APT repositories have packages that have information about the packages and the repositories. This is in the packages.gz file.
- Remember to be consistent in which is machine1 and which is machine2 because if you get confused you’d have a hard time following the instructions in the guide.
- Make sure you make a backup of your sources.list file — you could probably make a copy first before you begin the process.
- Don’t panic.
- Always have someone to guide you through it if you’re too nervous about what you’re thinking of doing.
You’d be doing a lot of copying of information back and forth the two machines you have so it’s best to be attentive and alert. Basically you will be generating a download script to fetch the packages you need and their dependencies. Afterwards you need to copy the files you were able to fetch to the machine where you want them installed. I suppose that in case you decided to ask your neighbor to let you use his/her computer to do this, you might have to discuss something about Linux so you might as well prepare yourself for some questions of a curious person who might decide to check out Linux too. ;)
Thanks goes out to the wonderful people on planetoss.com for making that tutorial for us. :)
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