On Sunday 04 February 2024 15:25:50 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote: > 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. > > > > 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 > Yes, I already do that, only in a little more complicated and exact way, to wit: sudo mv -f -v /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb -t /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/messy-20240201/ sudo dpkg -i -E -G /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/tde-trinity-daedalus-bookworm-20240201-stable/*.deb sudo mv -f -v /var/cache/apt/archives/*trinity*.deb -t /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/tde-trinity-daedalus-bookworm-20240201-stable/ sudo mv -f -v /var/cache/apt/archives/*tde*.deb -t /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/tde-trinity-daedalus-bookworm-20240201-stable/ sudo mv -f -v /var/cache/apt/archives/*tqt*.deb -t /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/tde-trinity-daedalus-bookworm-20240201-stable/ sudo mv -f -v /var/cache/apt/archives/*tqca*.deb -t /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/tde-trinity-daedalus-bookworm-20240201-stable/ sudo dpkg -i -E -G /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/tde-trinity-daedalus-bookworm-20240201-stable-deps/*.deb sudo mv -f -v /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb -t /home/geekstuff/archives/daedalus-bookworm_64/tde-trinity-daedalus-bookworm-20240201-stable-deps/ This sorts everything into the right folders. You will note how I try to separate Trinity-TDE items from dependencies; this works pretty well, but sometimes packages get put with Trinity, sometimes with deps. There is often a problem of duplication, as different packages use the same dependency, so when I get into installing other packages (notably, multimedia), I often have the same dependencies copied into different package folders. What I want is to create a local mini-repository, e.g., on a flash drive, then change my sources.list so that apt will look there for packages. Bill P.S. Below are some recent discoveries. I am appending the links here, as others may be able to make use of them, too. It seems that apt-mirror may do what I want, but I've yet to explore it yet. https://www.linux.com/news/burning-debian-packages-and-repositories-disc-aptoncd-and-apt-mirror/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240127221904/https://www.linux.com/news/burning-debian-packages-and-repositories-disc-aptoncd-and-apt-mirror/ https://askubuntu.com/questions/3576/how-to-make-usb-drive-as-local-repository https://web.archive.org/web/20230410001817/https://askubuntu.com/questions/3576/how-to-make-usb-drive-as-local-repository So far, this seems the best for my purposes. But if I understand other information I've read elsewhere, I need to make a tar.gz archive of those packages before I can use them as a repository with apt. But it's getting close to what I want. I've read about refracta and similar tools, but I don't want to create a snapshot of my system. A snapshot is only good if you don't care about recently saved or changed items; otherwise, it is like a backup, right? https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=678 https://web.archive.org/web/20221129054513/https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=678 Also I want to create an installation image of Devuan with TDE already available, and probably no other desktops (except maybe xfce for troubleshooting and testing). But I am not quite there yet. This is to create an actual online repository, I believe, for others to use. I don't have the resources for that; I just want to create one for myself on a flash drive. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.en.html https://web.archive.org/web/20230409023758/https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.en.html However, it may contain some useful information that I can apply to my own situation. Apparently aptoncd is still preserved somewhere. We hear that old versions can be downloaded from sourceforge. I tried, but their download link for that deb package is dead; I searched for an archived version, but found nothing. https://sourceforge.net/projects/aptoncd/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240204183159/https://sourceforge.net/projects/aptoncd/ https://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/download.html https://web.archive.org/web/20221007075747/https://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/download.html no archived versions of packages: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/aptoncd/aptoncd_0.1-1_all.deb http://downloads.sourceforge.net/aptoncd/aptoncd-0.1.tar.gz https://www.linux.com/news/burning-debian-packages-and-repositories-disc-aptoncd-and-apt-mirror/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240127221904/https://www.linux.com/news/burning-debian-packages-and-repositories-disc-aptoncd-and-apt-mirror/ Looks like it's been a long time since any development was done on this item. https://launchpad.net/aptoncd https://web.archive.org/web/20231107014851/https://launchpad.net/aptoncd ____________________________________________________ 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
