Comments on: How to Upgrade or Install Packages on Boxes without a Fast Internet Connection

By: seks izle

seks izle — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:18:04 +0000

hi,
If the computer connected to the Internet is a Windows XP machine, will this work? Is there a program in XP (like FileZilla) that can download the required packages?

By: War$nake

War$nake — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:23:50 +0000

Chk out these ideaz here…

Installing packages without an internet connection:
http://fasterthanlight.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/packgs-without-internet/

And installing packages using Live CD:
http://fasterthanlight.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/install-applications-from-live-cd/

By: jobsearch

jobsearch — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:58:24 +0000

Thats a good point Mitchell wubdepends works well and should solve any other problems.

By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:52:34 +0000

Learn to speak English and someone just might tell you.

If you are running Windows XP on the internet enabled computer, try wubdepends, it’s a portable .exe file that can be found on sourceforge. It even resolves dependencies for you!

By: cesar

cesar — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:49:34 +0000

How can i connect like 6 pcs in to mi w. router with a slow internet connection and few packages sent? Is there any hack to allow friends to be conected to the internet all at once and not having to disconect because the agency doesnt allow more than 2 pcs?

By: Timran Szaran

Timran Szaran — Thu, 31 May 2007 15:38:05 +0000

I think is the same method make all offline:
You need
1) configure /etc/apt/sources.list ,
2) make “aptitude update” offline for update packages databases.
3) With apt-get –print-uris -y install xxx see what packages you need to download.
4) download packages with wget
5) Copy and install these downloaded packages.

By: omar

omar — Tue, 29 May 2007 15:48:39 +0000

does anybody knows how to make this on Debian 4 “etch” ?

By: Timran Szaran

Timran Szaran — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:30:27 +0000

How update the packages database in offline mode
# “aptitude update” (offline repositories update):

Go to the computer without internet connection:
cat /etc/apt/sources.list

We can view here:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

Go to the computer with internet connection and download:

mkdir -p dapper/main
mkdir -p dapper/restricted
cd dapper/main
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
bunzip Packages.bz2
cd ../..

cd dapper/restricted
wget -c http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
bunzip Packages.bz2
cd ../..

mv dapper/main/Packages archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages
mv dapper/restricted/Packages archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_restricted_binary-i386_Packages

#Go back to the computer without internet connection:
mv *Packages /var/lib/apt/lists/

#Ok, now we have two file with databases of repositories.

/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_main_binary-i386_Packages
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_restricted_binary-i386_Packages

You maked “aptitude update” in offline mode.

By: abbas zarei

abbas zarei — Tue, 22 May 2007 06:49:54 +0000

I have winxp in my computer that connected to a fast internet conection. can I download all updates in a package?

By: penlap

penlap — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:26:35 +0000

If you want to install xxx_version_arch.deb on a machine(A) with slow connection :
on A do this:
apt-get –print-uris -y install xxx | grep “^’” | gawk ‘{ print $1 }’ | sed “s/’//g” > packages.lst

take text file packages.lst to machine with fast connection and run:
wget -i packages.lst [ -P DIRECTORY_TO_SAVE_FILES ]
thers is one wget.exe file for windows wich can be find in Internet.
Now you have all the files you need.
On a machine A copy these files to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and run apt-get install xxx

To upgrade the whole system, apt-get –print-uris -y dist-upgrade | grep “^’” | gawk ‘{ print $1 }’ | sed “s/’//g” > packages.lst