Terminology commonly used in offline package management: * Local machine : the offline ubuntu computer * Remote machine: another computer with broadband Internet connection, used to dowload the packages * Removable media: USB keydrive where store the scripts and dowloaded packages. Note that the disc should be formated with a filesystem that can handle long file names such as ext2/ext3, fat32 or vfat. == Synaptic == * [[http://wiki.debian.org/AptMedium|apt-medium]] a wrapper script for apt frontends. * SynapticPackageDownloadScript * Using [[Synaptic/Offline]]. == GUIs other than Synaptic == Keryx is a portable, cross-platform package manager for APT-based (Ubuntu, Debian) systems. It provides a graphical interface for gathering updates, packages, and dependencies for offline computers. Keryx is free and open source. You can get Keryx here: http://keryxproject.org/ == Command line == * [[http://wiki.debian.org/AptMedium|apt-medium]] * [[AptGet/Offline/PrintUris]] * AptCdrom , to use the Ubuntu Live Cd as package repository for an older computer. * [[AptOff]] script . * [[http://apt-offline.alioth.debian.org/|apt-offline]]. "apt-offline list" do much better that "apt-get --print-uris", because It distinguishes the "suites" (backport, multimedia, volatile, stable, testing), and allow you to mix the suites. So if you installed package A from a suite, it will search the updates only on such suite. == Offline repository == [[AptGet/Offline/Repository|How to create a local package repository]]. == Wget == [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget|wget]] is a computer program that implements simple and powerful content retrieval of files from internet servers === -O === {{{ wget -O file }}} With this -O option, the documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all will be concatenated together and written to file. == See also == * http://www.fifi.org/doc/apt/offline.html/ch1.html. Related information: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awk|awk]]. * [[http://ar.geocities.com/novatocba/doc/frame/sources-eng.htm|Sources List update offline and packages without Internet connection]]. * [[Synaptic/Offline]] ----- CategoryPackageManagement CategoryOffline