How to download all dependencies and packages to directory

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I m trying to install a package on a machine with no Internet connection  What I want to do is download all the packages and dependences on a machine WITH an Internet connection and then sneaker-net everything to the offline computer   I ve been playing with the apt-get and apt-cache but I haven t figured out a quick and easy way to download the package and dependencies in one swoop to a directory of my choosing  How would I do this  Am I going about this problem correctly  How would you install offline packages that have a lot of dependencies

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This will download all packages and dependencies (no already installed) to a directory of your choice:

sudo apt-get install -d -o Dir::Cache=/path-to/directory/apt/cache -o Dir::State::Lists=/path-to/directory/apt/lists packages

Make sure /path-to/directory/apt/cache and /path-to/directory/apt/lists exist. If you don't set -o Dir::Cache it points to /var/cache/apt, Dir::State::Lists points to /var/lib/apt/lists (which keeps the index files of available packages)

Both -o options can be used with update and upgrade instead of install.

On different machine run the same command without '-d'

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Somewhat simplified  and what worked for me  way that worked for me  based on all the above  Note that dependencies hierarchy can go deeper then one level  Get dependencies of your package    apt-cache depends mongodb   grep Depends    Depends  mongodb-dev   Depends  mongodb-server   Get urls   sudo apt-get --print-uris --yes -d --reinstall install mongodb-org mongodb-org-server mongodb-org-shell mongodb-org-tools   grep  http        awk   print 1     xargs -I     echo      tee files list wget --input-file files list

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I m assuming you ve got a nice fat USB HD and a good connection to the net   You can use apt-mirror to essentially create your own debian mirror   http   apt-mirror sourceforge net

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Same question already answered here  How to list download the recursive dependencies of a debian package   try   PACKAGES  wget unzip  apt-get download   apt-cache depends --recurse --no-recommends --no-suggests     --no-conflicts --no-breaks --no-replaces --no-enhances     --no-pre-depends   PACKAGES    grep    w

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aptitude clean   aptitude --download-only install  lt your package here gt    cp  var cache apt archives   deb  lt your directory here gt

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This will download all the Debs to the current directory  and will NOT fail if It can t find a candidate   Also does NOT require sudo to run sript   nano getdebs sh  amp  amp  chmod  x getdebs sh  amp  amp    getdebs sh     bin bash  package ssmtp  apt-cache depends   package    grep Depends   gt  gt  deb list  sed -i -e  s   lt  gt      g  deb list  sed -i -e  s Depends  g  deb list  sed -i -e  s    g  deb list  filename  deb list   while read -r line do     name   line      apt-get download   name  done  lt    filename   apt-get download   package    Note  I used this as my example because I was actually trying to DL the Deps for SSMTP and it failed on debconf-2 0  but this script got me what I need  Hope it helps

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I used apt-cache depends package to get all required packages in any case if the are already installed on system or not  So it will work always correct  Because the command apt-cache works different  depending on language  you have to try this command on your system and adapt the command  apt-cache depends yourpackage On an englisch system you get     apt-cache depends yourpackage node   Depends  libax25   Depends  libc6   On an german system you get  node    H  ngt ab von  libax25   H  ngt ab von  libc6   The englisch version with the term    Depends   You have to change the term  yourpackage  to your wish twice in this command  take care of this     sudo apt-get --print-uris --yes -d --reinstall install yourpackage   apt-cache depends yourpackage   grep    Depends      sed  s   Depends       sed   a N   ba s  n  g     grep       cut -d   -f2  gt downloads list   And the german version with the term   H  ngt ab von   You have to change the term  yourpackage  to your wish twice in this command  take care of this  This text is used twice in this command  if you want to adapt it to your language take care of this     sudo apt-get --print-uris --yes -d --reinstall install yourpackage   apt-cache depends yourpackage   grep  H  ngt ab von      sed  s   H  ngt ab von       sed   a N   ba s  n  g     grep       cut -d   -f2  gt downloads list   You get the list of links in downloads list Check the list  go to your folder and run the list     cd yourpathToYourFolder    wget --input-file downloads list   All your required packages are in     ls yourpathToYourFolder

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The aptitude --download-only     approach only works if you have a debian distro with internet connection in your hands    If you don t  I think it is better to run the following script on the disconnected debian machine   apt-get --print-uris --yes install  lt my package name gt    grep       cut -d   -f2  gt downloads list   move the downloads list file into a connected linux  or non linux  machine  and run   wget --input-file myurilist   this downloads all your files into the current directory After that you can copy them on an USB key and install in your disconnected debian machine   credits  http   www tuxradar com answers 517  PS I basically copied the blog post because it was not very readable  and in case the post will disappear

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The marked answer has the problem that the available packages on the machine that is doing the downloads might be different from the target machine  and thus the package set might be incomplete   To avoid this and get all dependencies  use the following    apt-get download   apt-rdepends  lt package gt  grep -v         Some packages returned from apt-rdepends don t exist with the exact name for apt-get download to download  for example  libc-dev   In those cases  filter out those exact names  be sure to use   lt NAME gt   so that other related names  for example libc-dev-bin  that do exist are not skipped    apt-get download   apt-rdepends  lt package gt  grep -v       grep -v   libc-dev      Once downloaded  you can move the  deb files to a machine without Internet and install them   sudo dpkg -i   deb

[apt-get] How to download all dependencies and packages to directory

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