Adept for offline installation

[bdsatish]

Hi frenz,

Here in India, we don't have a good broadband connection... So I downloaded all the required packages ( for emacs , including dependencies) from another computer in my college.

How can I tell Adept to install these debs automatically ??
I tried the "dpkg -i" command but it is too painful if there are many debs.
Same thing applies to Right-click --> Kubuntu Package Menu --> Install Package.

Can Adept be configured to point to the folder where I've stored all my debs?

[Snowhog]

Re: Adept for offline installation

Review this link for a info on creating a CD/DVD repository.

[coyotl]

Re: Adept for offline installation

if you are sure you got it all with dependencies,
try dpkg -i *.deb in the folder you have the debs in.
Should install the lot.

may have to do apt-get -f install afterwards

[Rog131]

Re: Adept for offline installation

I have local repository:

How to make local repository
make folders:

/home/user/debs/
/home/user/dists/feisty/deb_does_feisty/binary-i386/

copy .deb files to the /home/user/debs/

Generate package info (You are in the /home/user/):

:~$ dpkg-scanpackages debs /dev/null | gzip > Packages.gz

copy/move Packages.gz to the /home/user/dists/deb_does_feisty/binary-i386/

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add: deb file:///home/user/ feisty deb_does_feisty

Update package lists.
Install (Apt/Adept/Synaptic/Whatever).

This is from (modified) APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html
===> 2.2 How to use APT locally


Or

Use package cache

This is from APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html
==> 3.6 Removing unused package files: apt-get clean and autoclean

When you install a package APT retrieves the needed files from the hosts listed in /etc/apt/sources.list, stores them in a local repository (/var/cache/apt/archives/), and then proceeds with installation.

So put .debs in to the /var/cache/apt/archives/ and install (apt-get).


Links:

Topic: Making Local Repository
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3087550.0

Topic: OpenOffice 2.2.3
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3086717.0

[bdsatish]

Re: Adept for offline installation

Excellent ! Thanks for the tutorial ! It's workin