Anno domini 2024 Sun, 4 Feb 13:52:22 +0000 William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > I don't know if this is totally selfish and/or solipsistic of me, but I would > like to have a way to download *all* available packages appropriate to my > system. > > If there is some command that will do this, that will work, as I can pick and > choose on my own. A tool like aptoncd would be better, but I can find > anything like it any more. Best thing about images created with aptoncd is > that apt treats them exactly like repositories, so I don't need to cobble > together self-styled hacks and use dpkg, but can just depend or apt to find > the right combination of packages and dependencies. > > Debian still offers, I believe, extra CD or DVD images of the extra packages > in their repositories. In addition to the installation images, there are > usually extra discs, 1, 2, 3 and 4, containing extra packages. I used to > search all over Devuan to find the same, but now it seems that they, too, > have caught up, and offer disc images of extras. Or perhaps I have only > recently discovered where they keep them hidden? > > My reason for this request is related to my recent previous posts: sometimes I > find myself in a remote place, or in a crazy situation, where there is no > internet access, or where -- such as recently -- flooding or some other > disaster has knocked out internet. Yet, while I have no internet, I still > need to have a working computer for other things that I do offline; and now, > suddenly, my machine gives me problems, and I need to do a system > reinstallation, or at least to install some new and unfamiliar packages. Copy the folder /var/cache/apt, there's all in what you may need. Or try "refractasnapsot". I have just uploaded a "bleeding edge" iso of devuan excalibur + TDE 14.2 + patched refractasnapshot: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6299 Nik > > Thanks for any help, > > Bill > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
