On Sunday 04 of February 2024 14:52:22 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > 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. > > Thanks for any help, > > Bill > > ____________________________________________________ Hi Bill, although there were several answers, I will add more. 1. If you just want to download all deb packages to one folder, like apt cache, you can use aptitude: aptitude search -F "%p" "~Otrinitydesktop.org" | xargs -r aptitude download 2. If you want to have a complete structure including apt metadata, I recommend interested in apt-mirror package: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/apt-mirror Cheers -- Slávek
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